Wildeberg Terroirs Chenin Blanc

WINEMASTER:

JD Rossouw

ORIGIN:

Paarl - South Africa

WINEYARDS AND WINEMAKING:

This is a release of a Chenin Blanc from the long-established soils of Paarl Mountain. A single site Chenin Blanc from old bush vines grown on the Smuts Block which is old, dry-grown bush vines rooted in the rocky, granite seam outcrops that surface rarely in the otherwise deep, sandy loams between Table Mountain and Paarl. Hand-harvested bush vine fruit naturally fermented back at the farm at Wildeberg. As little work as possible is required in order to capture the site-specific energy of this fruit.

ANALYSIS:

APPEARANCE:

 Yellow mellon color with light olive rim.

TASTING NOTE:

A nose of warm sand gives way to a wave of broad blood orange, pithy texture and a taut, wiry seam of granite texture in the finish.