A hands down favourite of ours! A wine that is seriously punching above it's price point. A proper old vine Chenin showing all of the gorgeous fruit, texture and class of far more expensive bottle.
Expect a broad, savoury, complex nose with ripe stonefruit and citrus, aromas of straw, saffron and baked earth. Generous and textural with apricot, green plum and grapefruit, the richness of fruit balanced by tangy freshness and a taut, mineral seam on the long, focused finish.
Chenin Blanc from selected old, dry farmed bush vines, grown on Table Mountain granite outcrops that surface in Paarl’s otherwise deep sandy loams. The 2022 comes 100% from Eenzaamheid (meaning loneliness), planted in 1977. Hand-harvested and naturally fermented back at the farm at Wildeberg, then aged for 12 months in new and older French barrels. As little work as possible is required in order to capture the site-specific energy of this fruit.
The Details:
Country: South Africa
Region: Paarl
Abv: 13%
Grape: Chenin Blanc
The Producer:
Franschhoek is on the very edge of the south-eastern corner of the Cape’s venerable Coastal Region, indeed Wildeberg’s property border runs over the top of the mountain where the Coastal Region gives way to the baboon-strewn road to Grabouw and the wider Western Cape.The Wildeberg wines express the most captivating Franschhoek Valley fruit. Wildeberg Terroirs bottlings we look beyond our home to a clutch of exceptional sites of other origin. A mountain rich in metaphor with the visual heft to flatter any wine, releases of Wildeberg and Terroirs express our continued purpose – exceptional wines of place, however humble the origin. If the abiding memory of our wines remains a textural sense of place then we are portraying the Cape as hoped.
