David & Nadia Chenin Blanc 2024
David & Nadia Chenin Blanc 2024
Price: 38,00€
DESCRIPTION
This Chenin Blanc is a blend of eight old bush vines located in the Swartland, grown on granite and clay soils. Vinified without the use of oak, it fully expresses the purity of fruit and minerality characteristic of this exceptional South African terroir, a global benchmark for this varietal.
The nose, surprisingly aromatic for a young Chenin, mingles spring flowers, honeysuckle, and a touch of lanolin. The palate, rich and profound, is driven by a vibrant, taut acidity, saline minerality, and a waxy note on the finish, leading to a long, persistent finale. Serve at around 10-12°C with roast pork, blue cheese and walnut pasta, or shrimp.
REGION
Swartland
South Africa
North of Cape Town, the Swartland takes its name from the renosterbos, a local shrub that turns dark at certain times of year. The climate is hot and dry. Many of the vines are bush trained and dry farmed, on schist, granite and iron rich clay soils. The region is known for its old vine Chenin Blanc and for Rhône grapes: Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre and Cinsault. Since the 2000s, a generation of independent winemakers has worked here with minimal intervention in the cellar, making fresh, precise wines that stay true to their terroir.
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This Chenin has a wild, saline edge that I love; it's almost like a Loire wine lost in the Cape. A huge surprise for the price.