Mullineux Olerasay Straw Wine No.3 WO Swartland
  • Sweet Wine
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Residual Sugar: 323 g/l
  • Medium Bodied
  • 375ml
  • 8.5% alc./vol

Mullineux Olerasay Straw Wine No.3 WO Swartland

Swartland, South Africa
$151.00per bottle ($906.00per case)
6 bottles per case
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Luscious & Sweet

This product will be available to order as part of a special LCBO feature on September 13th. Please feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com if you need any assistance locating stock.

Mullineux Family Wines was established in 2007 in the Swartland region of South Africa, owned and managed by Chris and Andrea Mullineux. Within a very short time period the winery established itself as one of South Africa’s most celebrated wine brands, both locally and on the international front.

Grapes for our Straw Wine are sourced from the parcels of-old vine Chenin Blanc that give us the best acidity at harvest. The vines are planted in the stony Schist based soils of the Kasteelberg and the decomposed Granite based soils of the Paardeberg.

Each vintage, since 2008, we have held back a barrel or two of our Straw Wine and blended them together, refreshing the solera each year with the new vintages. Olerasay 2o is from barrels which have been fractionally blended for the vintages 2008 through 2019, producing many layers of complexity, nuttiness and depth. We have only bottled a portion of the Solera, and have kept a portion back to continue adding to for decades to come.

Bright golden straw in colour, with a rich, viscous appearance. The nose and palate is a complex, enticing blend of dried peaches, apricots, honey and marmalade, with a savoury nuttiness. The intense mouth-feel is balanced by a clean, fresh and very long finish.

Enjoy this delicious and special wine on it's own or with a carefully curated cheese platter (bring on the blue!).

About the Winery

Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines

​Mullineux Family Wines, established in 2007 in the Swartland region of South Africa, is owned and managed by Chris and Andrea Mullineux. Since its inception the winery has established itself as one of South Africa’s most celebrated wine brands, both locally and internationally. Originally from Northern California, Winemaker Andrea Mullineux studied Viticulture and Oenology at UC-Davis before working in Stellenbosch and meeting Chris at a wine festival in Champagne. Chris is the Viticulturist in charge of the vineyards on their farm on Kasteelberg Mountain as well as fruit sourcing for their value Kloof Street wines.

To add to their acclaim, Andrea Mullineux was named Wine Enthusiast’s Winemaker of the Year in 2016 and in 2016 Chris & Andrea were Tim Atkin’s South African Winemakers of the Year. . By focusing on producing handcrafted wines from the granite and shale based soils of the Swartland and it is quickly becoming South Africa's wine frontier. Located an hour's drive away from Stellenbosch, the Swartland is rolling hills of wheat and jagged outcrops of old vines.

Press Reviews

Robert Parker

98 Points

The third-ever bottling of this wine, the NV Olerasay #3 is the estate's solara blend of Chenin Blanc made from the 2008 to 2021 vintages. The wine is pure, focused and impeccably weighted, with an electric nose that bursts from the glass with sweet florals, just-ripe quince and peach aromas. The palate is steeped with mouthwatering acidity and an exuberant concentration of fruit before revealing incredible complexity and a balanced profile that is instantly impressive and will remain a world-class dessert wine. Drenched in hedonism, the wine concludes with a seemingly unending array of stone fruit essence and sweet fruit tones. I cannot wait to see how this solera ages throughout its lifetime as it gains complexity with age. The dessert wine trophy hunters of the world would be wise to seek out a bottle of the Olerasay to add to their collection and cellars.