To Try, Buy or Put By

TO TRY: Delheim Wines, Chardonnay Sur Lie, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2014, €24.95 from O’Briens Wines stores and online at obrienswine.ie nationwide (92)

This is a meticulously made wine that uses traditional techniques of hand-picking, wild yeast fermenting and ageing on lees, that is letting the wine rest on grape pulp and old yeast, rather like leaving a teabag in a cup to extract more flavour. This has produced an opulent chardonnay with toasty ...