Paul Cluver Seven Flags Chardonnay

It has been over 60 years since Paul Cluver’s visionary mother, Gertrude, founded an agricultural school on the De Rust Estate in the Elgin Valley (Western Cape South Coast, South Africa) with the aim of empowering people to be free to choose their own path. With only 23 students and a lot of passion, this was the beginning of a commitment to the economic, social and environmental landscape. This philosophy has now been passed down through four generations and has made the Cluster family a leading example in the production of quality wines around the world.

The uniqueness of the valley where they are located, and more specifically, the estate where their vines grow, allows the Clusters to make great wines like Paul Cluver Seven Flags Chardonnay, a regional benchmark wine made from the oldest Chardonnay vines in Elgin. These are old vines cultivated through respectful agriculture and harvested by hand at the optimum point of ripeness. In the winery, the grapes are selected, destemmed and gently pressed. Then the resulting must is fermented in French oak barrels and spends 9 months on its lees without adding any of sulphur.

The flagship wine of the winery and the entire Elgin Valley, Paul Cluver Seven Flags Chardonnay is one of the best products in the whole region. An intensely concentrated Chardonnay with remarkable reverberation.