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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When one considers the long list of acclaim and reputation built from releasing top quality wines, vintage after vintage, from their restored 220 year old cellar on Paardebosch farm on the slopes of the Paardeberg in the Swartland, it's hard to imagine that David & Nadia Sadie established this brand as recent as 2010 only. The wines are characteristically fine and elegant, expressive of the places they come from. The focus lies on a spectrum of organic, old and dry land bush vine vineyards from different areas with different soil types throughout the Swartland, farmed by like-minded people. Considered one of the 'young guns' during the fine wine revolution of the Swartland, David's wines are now considered among the best in the region and beyond.
David & Nadia is a family owned Swartland Winery who have quickly become one of the best white wine producers in South Africa. Made from a single vineyard planted in 1985 in very shallow shale soils on the Paardeberg. This “hill of shale”, as the name suggests, is surrounded by granite-rich soils, making it quite a unique vineyard site. Since 2020 the "Skaliekop" block has been a certified heritage vineyard.
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Critics Ratings
‘Rich marmalade tang to 2019 with honeyed nuance at end. As effortless & precise as siblings; winemaking identical: bunch pressing, natural ferment, ageing in older oak. Seemingly simple but highly complex; concentrated & enthralling, with focused poise. From shale (’skalie’) site. 13% alcohol.’ - Platter’s SA Wine Guide 2021, 5* (96/100)
‘From a vineyard on Paardeberg property Paardebosch planted in 1985 on shale. Potpourri, blossom, white and yellow fruit plus a little white pepper on the nose. The palate has excellent fruit density matched by bright acidity, the finish long and dry. Great focus and flavour intensity. Alcohol: 13%.’ – Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 97/100 (Aug 2020)
‘Intense, broad, honeyed nose that could only be dry-grown Cape Chenin with an overlay of wild flowers and herbs. Bone-dry finish and a lightly smoky (reductive?) note. Long and throat-warming. Real tension in this wine, but no austerity. Definitely more immediate and more flattering than the Hoë-Steen.’ – Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17/20 (Sep 2020)
‘Skaliekop is a shallow shale site on the Paardebosch farm that benefited from the addition of moisture-retaining mulch in 2019. Yeasty, leesy and broader than the other two single vineyard Sadie Chenins, this has notes of citrus peel and beeswax, plenty of weight and a stony finish. 2021-29’ - Tim Atkin SA Special Report 2020, 96/100
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