Cape Heritage and The Loire
Timed Online Auction, 1 - 12 August 2024
Cape Heritage - White Wines
About the SessionThe Cape Heritage White Wine Session features the noble variety, Chenin Blanc, known for its versatility and fruit intensity. South Africa has the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in the world and produces long-aging, diverse and fine wines.
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Chris and Suzanne Alheit set the wine world on fire with their maiden 2011 Cartology receiving 96 points from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. Aiming to harness the best old vineyards across the Cape, the Cartology offered a textured old-vine Chenin Blanc Semillon blend with startling purity and depth. Passionate and focused on the expression of place, tiny, long-forgotten parcels were added to the range, and are today South Africa’s most profound white wines. We auction maiden vintages of Magnetic Makstok on the legendary ‘Skurfkop’ in the Citrusdal area, Huilkrans in the Paardeberg, La Colline in Franschhoek, and, extremely rare Radio Lazarus in Stellenbosch.
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Critics Ratings
‘2014 a brilliant follow-up to maiden 2012 (5 stars) off resurrected old Chenin Blanc vines on the Bottelary Hills. It has a graceful, delicately insistent richness and power, based on a complex harmony of ripe fruit (there’s a core of sweet peach along with an earthy element) and fresh acidity.’ - Platter’s SA Wine Guide 2016, 4.5*
‘There was no Radio Lazarus in 2013 (“I picked it too late,” explains Chris Alheit), so it’s great to welcome this remarkable 2014 release from a vineyard planted in 1978. Bready, yeasty and complex with layered oak, spice and orchard fruit flavours. Effortless concentration.’ - Tim Atkin SA Special Report 2015, 97/100
‘The 2014 Radio Lazarus is back after missing 2013 (it was blended into Cartology). It comes from a hilltop, organically farmed vineyard planted in 1978 and is 100% Chenin Blanc on shale soils. It has a very refined bouquet with honeysuckle, warm gravel, a touch of fennel and sage. The palate is beautifully balanced, effortless and refined, understated at first but delivering a very succinct, desiccated orange peel and fennel-tinged finish. It actually becomes more unctuous as it opens up. It does not have the length of the 2013, but this is so subtle that it's complexity might be overlooked.’ - Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, 93/100 (Nov 2015)
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