Wolf Blass - Yellow Label Chardonnay

Wolf Blass - Yellow Label ChardonnayWolfgang Franz Otto Blass was born in 1934 in Germany. After Wolf ran away from school, his parents handed him an ultimatum, either start a 3 year winemaking apprenticeship or get back to classand so began a journey that changed the winemaking world. After studying Champagne techniques in France in 1957, Wolf became the youngest person ever to graduate with a Masters in Oenology from Veitschoechheim Wuerzberg. In 1959, he moved to England to study the

taking both a permacultural and regenerative farming approach

night harvesting to take advantage of cool temperatures

and mountains of this region

Since 1988

and that our well-being is impacted by the health of our community

then Passenans and finally Etoile

As they could not afford to buy an established vineyard

It would breed some of South Africa’s finest racehorses for 30 years

and minimizing interventions in the vineyard as much as possible by doing manual canopy management

The rocky soil was overturned to plant vines as well as to build a complex including: the winery

followed later by a Fladgate and a Yeatman

and of course the very special Chateau Chalon