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Chenin Blanc

Chenin Blanc

R130

Per Bottle

The very first of the wines to leave the cellar for Brookdale Estate was the Mason Road Chenin Blanc. The vines were the oldest that could be salvaged on the estate’s land when it was acquired by Tim Rudd.

A true Cinderella story, Chenin Blanc is now set to be one of our most celebrated varietals being produced by Brookdale in a variety of styles using different techniques.

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Door to door in South Africa. Estimated 5 - 10 working days.

CHENIN BLANC

Winemaker, Kiara Scott, is young, full of energy, and brings with her a new world order for the creation of Chenin Blancs. We love her ‘breaking boundaries’ approach to winemaking, echoed in Tim’s vision ‘to do something different at Brookdale’. Unlike the Brookdale Estate Chenin Blanc, the Mason Road Chenin is from younger vineyards and lightly oaked with only 20% in old French oak. It presents revitalising freshness alongside full fruit flavours as a result of the warm climate and cool mountain breeze.

The Mason Road Chenin Blanc has racy acidity and a pithy finish, a wine as nonconformist as its maker.

CHENIN BLANC

Winemaker, Kiara Scott, is young, full of energy, and brings with her a new world order for the creation of Chenin Blancs. We love her ‘breaking boundaries’ approach to winemaking, echoed in Tim’s vision ‘to do something different at Brookdale’. Unlike the Brookdale Estate Chenin Blanc, the Mason Road Chenin is from younger vineyards and lightly oaked with only 20% in old French oak. It presents revitalising freshness alongside full fruit flavours as a result of the warm climate and cool mountain breeze.

The Mason Road Chenin Blanc has racy acidity and a pithy finish, a wine as nonconformist as its maker.

Brookdale Estate Mason Road Chenin Blanc glass of wine 1

THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS

What customers & critics are saying

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The nose shows a herbal top note before pear, peach, citrus and guava, while the palate has good fruit concentration … Great quality relative to price.

CHRISTIAN EEDES

WINE JOURNALIST, 2020

“This is like a lemon-zeste, whole-meal scone topped with sour cream and lemon verbena. Three-dimensional and scrumptious.”

Tamlyn Currin for Jancis Robinson MW

16.5 Points

90
DWWA 2022 GOLD GENERIC 1
Medaille Challenge GOLD
Gold Medal
SA Wine Awards London Gold 1

TASTING NOTES

Exuberant aromatics of frangipani flowers, pineapple crush, melon, mangoes in the sun, preserved lemon, and hints of vanilla pod. Juicy pineapple washes in on the tropical palate radiating into apple purity and pear freshness. The sea is there; a thrum of salt and sun-baked rocks at the edges, freighted in an undertow of cream lees. A ruby grapefruit pithiness curls through, fresh and lifting, to the lime-kissed finish.

WINEMAKING

The 1993 block of Chenin Blanc was picked in four batches at different degrees of ripeness. Pre-cooled fruit was destemmed and crushed. Light pressing took place and free run juice was settled overnight. Fermentation occurred in a combination of stainless steel tanks (85%) and old oak French barrels (15%) using an inoculated yeast strain. The barrels were racked and blended with the tank-fermented portion and then bottled. The final blend was made up after 11 months of ageing on the lees, followed by a light filtration before bottling.

Technical analysis

ALCOHOL

13.56% Vol

TOTAL ACIDITY

5.8 g/l

pH

3.43

RESIDUAL SUGAR

2.2 g/l

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