One of South Africa’s icon whites, Seven Flags is a beautifully elegant, Burgundy-inspired Chardonnay with fabulous balance and freshness. Complex, vibrant and spicy, but with a rich palate weight, it is a Meursault-like white which has also benefited from a few extra years in bottle so is absolutely perfect to drink now.
Tasting Notes and Scores
Exotic aromas play with creamy melted lemon butter, herbs and citrus zest alongside layers of wet grey slate minerality. The palate has meringue elements alongside the lemon, and is well structured with excellent acidity and focus, as well as being playfully leesy and textured. It exudes grace and elegance. Drinking Window: 2017 - 2022
Tasted by: Tim Atkin MW, John Hoskins MW, Greg Sherwood MW (at Decanter's April 2017 issue South African Chardonnay over £7.99 Tasting, 30 Nov 2016)
Part of South African Chardonnay – panel tasting results
Decanter
The 2015 Seven Flags Chardonnay was picked between February 16 and March 4 at 6.6-tons per hectare, and matured in 25% new French oak. It has a sophisticated bouquet with quite intense aromas of citrus fruit, nutmeg and walnut, perhaps a little nod to Meursault there. The palate is vibrant and fresh on the entry with a saline entry, a keen thread of acidity, the complexity really surfacing towards the second half with subtle lemongrass veins lending tanginess that beckons you back for another sip. I have often claimed this to be one of South Africa's finest Chardonnays and this 2015 adds to their canon of world-class wines. April 2017
Neal Martin
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