Delheim & Hammel Staying Alive Riesling 2023
A very smooth Riesling, dry and lightly minerally.
Crisp & Dry
£20.50
| Producer | Delheim |
|---|---|
| Country | South Africa |
| Region | Stellenbosch |
| Wine Type | White Wine |
| Body / Style | Crisp & Dry |
| Grape Blend | 100% Weisser Riesling |
| Bottle Size (ml) | 750 |
| % Abv | 13 |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Special Features | Sustainable, Vegan |
| Extra Info | SA Reisling - yummy! |
| Food Pairing Guide | Try with an array of smoked sausage & meat or tropical inspired dishes. |
| Terroir | Soil: Oakleaf profile, mainly decomposed granite |
Delheim & Hammel Staying Alive Riesling has notes of apple and citrus. A delightful wine with an excellent finish - not easy to get hold of!
Together with Christoph Hammel, we believe Riesling is one of the world's great white varieties, and although plantings have declined in South Africa with only a handful of producers making wine from this cultivar. Riesling's ability to make great wines shows the variety is still definitely alive and kicking.
With the Hammels making wine for eight generations, and Delheim now in the third generation, Staying Alive also underscores the longevity and the important role of familyowned wineries throughout the wine world.
Grapes are hand-picked early morning, de-stemmed and crushed.
24 hour skin contact before pressing. Juice is allowed to settle for 5 hours then racked into tank for 6 weeks of stabulation at 2 °C, stirring up the sediment twice a day. After that it is racked into concrete egg tanks and 500 L French oak barrels. Fermentation happens roughly between 15–17 °C.
After fermentation the wine was kept on its lees until November before bottling.
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