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Fine, mineral Chenin characters with gentle ripe apple aromas, honeyed aromatics and delicious greengage and citrus lemon acidity on the long finish.
A wine with great finesse and style.
The False Bay Chenin Blanc vineyard is not the sort of vineyard that will win prizes for appearances. You will be shocked if you expect neat monocultural rows of regimented wines, standing in gleaming bare earth. What makes these vineyards so exciting for us is the fact that fine and distinctive adventures in terroir are to be found, rather than ultra-ripe, super extracted fruit. The decomposed granite characteristics of the Perdeberg mountain seem to deliver a wine of structural finesse and minerality, more terroir driven than the Swartland in general. The vines are left to struggle for what water they can find generally, thanks to an element of retentive clay, there is enough, yet in drier years our response might have to be to drop of some crop (not that there was much to start with). Fortunately, more often than not, one of natures kindnesses here is a well-timed rainfall in December, prior to veraison. Production is limited, but Werner is already working hard to isolate and successfully contract vineyards of similar potential. In essence, what we are doing is rediscovering the Swartland region, by centering on the island of Paardeberg.
A wine with great finesse and style.
The False Bay Chenin Blanc vineyard is not the sort of vineyard that will win prizes for appearances. You will be shocked if you expect neat monocultural rows of regimented wines, standing in gleaming bare earth. What makes these vineyards so exciting for us is the fact that fine and distinctive adventures in terroir are to be found, rather than ultra-ripe, super extracted fruit. The decomposed granite characteristics of the Perdeberg mountain seem to deliver a wine of structural finesse and minerality, more terroir driven than the Swartland in general. The vines are left to struggle for what water they can find generally, thanks to an element of retentive clay, there is enough, yet in drier years our response might have to be to drop of some crop (not that there was much to start with). Fortunately, more often than not, one of natures kindnesses here is a well-timed rainfall in December, prior to veraison. Production is limited, but Werner is already working hard to isolate and successfully contract vineyards of similar potential. In essence, what we are doing is rediscovering the Swartland region, by centering on the island of Paardeberg.
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| Size | 75cl |
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| Country | South Africa |
| Region | Western Cape |
| Vintage | N/A |
| ABV | N/A |
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