2023 Skaliekop Chenin Blanc
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Showing a pretty mineral character with wild sage, pastry cream and candy corn, the David & Nadia 2023 Swartland Skaliekop Chenin Blanc is one of four special expressions of the grape made by this husband-and-wife team. This wine has a voluptuous side with pretty complexity. It is perhaps more demure in terms of bouquet, but it catches up with orchard fruit, honey and toasted grains. Production is limited to 1,958 bottles.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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The Skaliekop (Shale-Hill) vines were planted in 1985 in very shallow shale soils in the Paardeberg, an anomaly in this granite-rich region. A small tractor road divides the Plat’bos and Skaliekop vineyards. The wines of the different pickings were aged separately, before blending and then bottling at the end of the year. Creamy texture and rewarding with real honey and damp-straw flavours. Long. (JR)
The 2023 Chenin Blanc Skaliekop comes from bush vines planted in 1985 on shale soils. It has an introverted nose at first, opening with well-defined oyster shell, linseed oil and light pine scents. The elegantly styled palate is where the action is: superb delineation and focus, a keen line of acidity and a dash of ginger on the finish. Superb.