Best before
Drink now to 2030
Serving advice
Serve lightly chilled at 16°C
Food match
Perfect with light and delicate food such as raw and lightly cooked shellfish like crab and prawns, steamed or grilled fish, fish pâtés, fish, chicken or vegetable terrines and pasta or risotto with spring vegetables. It also will go well with creamy vegetable soups.
Stellenbosch
South Africa
Blend
Chardonnay Semillion
12.5%
ABV
Wine profile
It’s a modern rich white
Big on flavour, with no apologies needed. Ranging from big buttery Aussie to refined and elegant Burgundy. The magic ingredient in the winemaking of these wines is oak.
Also look out for unashamedly big styles like Chardonnay, white Rioja, Gewurztraminer, Viognier and white Rhone.
About the wine
Kobie and Faisal’s Stellenbosch take on a top-class white Burgundy, at a snip of the price, tastes like it sounds… golden
Kobie and Faisal were always big fans of the famous white Burgundy ‘Montrachet’, but not of its uber-expensive price tag. So we challenged them to make a Montrachet-quality white – powerful, rich, with mind-boggling flavours – at South African prices. What they came up with was pure White Gold…
They’ve nailed the perfect balance of elegant crispness and ripe, lush flavours. It’s got a lovely nose of lemon curd, coconut and ripe pineapple – like a tropical fruit salad – that follows through on the palate with a nice hint of citrus and a soft, creamy texture. Utterly delicious.
With over a dozen vintages of this wine in their back pocket, Kobie & Faisal’s exquisite Chardonnay-Semillon blend has become a Naked classic and one of our all-time cult wines. Every time it lands there’s an almighty gold rush to secure a stash. So grab your lot while it’s here.
Meet the winemaker
Kobie and Faisal
Kobie was head winemaker at South Africa’s ancient Spier winery, with the oldest wine cellar in the land. Faisal was the business brains that transformed Spier into the nation’s most medalled winery in the 1990s.
They bought a vineyard right next door to Spier, and for years sold them their grapes, which went into Spier’s top-of-the-range boutique wines.
Angel backing now means they use their own grapes to make a range of game-changing wines that have become cult classics at Naked. If you like trying new wines that make you go, ‘where has this been all my life?’, you’ll love Kobie & Faisal.
Alergens
UNITED KINGDOM
Buy via Naked Wines UK
SOUTH AFRICA
Cellar Door: Wines available, by appointment only, from Oneiric Winery,
76 Highlands Rd, Elgin, 718.
071 4819560