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Restaurant Mosaic

Critics Ratings

'Exhilarating 2017 from shy-yielding dryland vines, harmonious compendium of complex textures & flavours. Limpid & assured, with a whisper of scrub & enduring elegant conclusion, balanced 12.5% alcohol. 'Natural' winemaking of the highest order.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2019, 5* (96/100)

'This is a fascinating expression of Chenin Blanc created by André Bruyns. It's the liquid equivalent of an enigma wrapped in a mystery that's wrapped in a conundrum. The aromatics show crystalline white peach and yellow citrus, early season crunchy yellow orchard fruits but also pronounced salty, briney oxidative saline sea breeze notes. Underneath it all is this profound sense of liquid granitic minerality that pervades the wine. On the palate the tug of war continues, being taut but rich, salty but peachy, stony and thoroughly citric. Delicious oxidative notes of brine and dry roasted nuts rub shoulders with crisp bright acids, yet more overt minerality and an ample fleshy Chenin palate that retains a tight, crisp tension-laden finish. Intellectually, this wine is exhausting; hedonistically, it possesses the palate excitement of an eight year old child's birthday and Christmas rolled into one! Still super youthful so drink a few bottles now but be sure to cellar at least a few for revisiting over 8-15+ years. A deliciously intriguing white!' - Greg Sherwood MW, 95/100 (May 2020)

'André Bruyns has a day job with David and Nadia Sadie, but makes some very tasty wines under his own label. This fresh, stony, focused Chenin comes from granite and iron soils and has yeasty complexity and green apple zip. 2019-25' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2018, 93/100

'Very pure and precise with marked acidity. You'd never guess this was grown in a warm region. Honey and green undergrowth on the nose. A saline streak on the palate. So pure it almost hurts!' - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17/20 (Sep 2019)

'Grapes from three Paardeberg vineyards. A hint of reduction before pear, white peach and citrus plus notes of hay and earth in the background. Lovely fruit definition and snappy acidity before a salty finish. Pure and direct.' - Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 93/100 (Aug 2018)