Young Guns
Online-Only Auction, 17 - 28 November 2022
Young Guns | For the classicists and the geeks alike, an incredible collection
About the SessionWhat is a Young Gun?
A talented winemaker who pushes the boundaries, breaks the rules and creates cutting-edge wines with personality and energy. Young Guns either work, or have worked for notable estates, but also produce unique wines under their own labels. They are dynamic, working together in pushing the envelope and promoting brand SA. They are the winemakers who should be on your radar as they are making some of the most daring, innovative, and simply delicious wines in SA. They travel and taste extensively, drawing inspiration from the classics through to the more edgy, hip styles and techniques, from the profound and obscure wine regions of the world. And then they apply their own creative interpretations on home soil, often searching for unique vineyard sites, cultivars and old vines. The results are most often small in numbers and high in demand, selling out on release. They are the rising stars, the future icons and ultimately, tomorrow’s investment wines.
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About this Item
David & Nadia is a family owned Swartland Winery who have quickly become one of the best white wine producers in South Africa. Made from fifty-year-old vines, in minute quantities in the Western Swartland, it carries the Certified Heritage Vineyards seal. Hoë-Steen's unique character, purity and presence has seen it gain critical acclaim across the world.
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2015
'Overall White Wine of the Year 2016 - There's only one barrel of this, alas, because it's the greatest South African Chenin Blanc I've ever tasted. Grown on granite, quartz and ferricrete soils, this comes from a 50-year-old vineyard in the western part of the Swartland. Stone, jasmine and hawthorn aromas segue into a remarkable array of favours: wet wool, lees, beeswax, struck match, vanilla spice and minerality. Truly one of the great Cape whites. Can David Sadie do it again next year? Drink: 2016-24.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2016, 98/100
'Off 50 year old bushvines with unusually tall shoots, hence 'High Chenin', this typically richer than single-vineyard sibling. 2015 as refined as 2014 (96 pts), similar restrained pear and wet wool aromas, intense bruised apple flavours with harmonious length, extraordinary presence.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2017, 5*
2016
'There's still only one barrel of this world-class Chenin Blanc, alas, so join the queue to buy some. Sourced from granite and koffieklip soils, it has an amazing combination of freshness and depth, frivolity and seriousness. Focused, rich and spicy with pear and pastry flavours underpinned by minerality. 2018-24.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2017, 97/100
'Deep clay soils on a granite base. One 400-litre barrel made. Firm and obviously very structured. Extremely complex. Clean, majestic and racy. Bone dry and transparent. Great wine.' - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17.5/20 (Aug 2018)
2017
'Ex 50 year old bushvines with roots in clay and unusually tall shoots, hence 'High Chenin', this typically more powerful than Skaliekop sibling. Refined 2017 customary pear and wet wool aromas, intense bruised apple flavours, with harmonious length and an extraordinary presence.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2019, 5* (96 pts)
'Fans of this wine - and I'm in the front row every time - will be delighted to hear that production has risen to five barrels in 2017. Planted in 1968, this two-hectare vineyard is a thing of wonder. Musk, nutmeg and herbal, green apple flavours, incredible intensity and length and an undertone of old wood. One of the Cape's greatest whites. 2020-30.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2018, 98/100
2018
'This stunning, world class Chenin Blanc comes from deep clay and iron soils. It's a lateripening site planted in 1968 and often the last to be picked at the winery. Rich, concentrated and very fresh, with stony, flinty aromas, subtle aromatic spices, pastry and pear flavours and the faintest whisper of oak. 2021-28.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2019, 97/100
'This south-facing 2-ha (5-acre) vineyard ripens late and was their last vineyard to be harvested in 2018 (even after Cinsault), about a week later than usual in the second half of February. Smaller canopies due to the lack of rainfall for three consecutive winters. Hand sorted, whole-bunch pressed, one year in old French oak barrels. A Certified Heritage Vineyards wine. The yield was 3 t/ha in 2017 but
