Hogan The Galvanised Chardonnay 2023

Hogan wines was started in 2014 and is a small, family-run business with Jocelyn Hogan Wilson as winemaker. Having a keen interest in botany, soil, wine, and the outdoors, Jocelyn enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001 to study a BSc degree in Viticulture & Oenology. After seven years of working for various wineries in the Cape and overseas, she decided to team up with her family (the Hogans and the Wilsons) to start Hogan Wines. Jocelyn is passionate about South African old vines and aims to produce elegant, site-specific wines through minimal intervention and gentle handling. They make their wines in the beautiful Banhoek Valley and source grapes from various regions of the Western Cape, selecting vineyards suited in terms of climate and soil to the varietals they make. Older vines are chosen, which tell the story of the vintage through their well-established root systems, gnarled trunks and lower yields. Through close relationships with the farmers, they continually work to gain an understanding of the nuances of each vineyard, an understanding that they believe is pivotal to making good wine.

Grapes for the Galvanised Chardonnay 2023 were sourced from two twenty year old trellised Chardonnay vineyards, both planted on Summercourt Farm, on the Simonsberg Mountain. The higher altitude vineyard (400m) was picked first on 13 February and the one at lower altitude (350m) was picked on 27 February. Natural barrel fermentation in 100% old French oak barrels for ten months.