Provenance

Private Client

Critics Ratings

‘Paarl is the only source of Duncan Savage's Chenin Blanc this year as he is no longer using a component from Malgas. Rich, aromatic and textured, with 100% malolactic adding a creamy mid palate, some peach and beeswax flavours and a hint of skin tannins. 2020-24’ – Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2019, 93/100

'Duncan’s knowledge of old vine Paarl vineyards is well known and this 100% Chenin Blanc from 64 year old dry land grown bush vines on granite soils is a fabulous expression of what is possible in this region. Whole bunch pressed and fermented and aged in neutral Stockinger 600 litre barrels for 10 months, this second vintage rises to new heights after a very solid 2017 effort. The 2018 is altogether less pithy and herbal than the last vintage, instead conveying more classical notes of dusty granitic minerality, white citrus, creamy pineapple pastille fruits and sweet lemon biscuit notes. Top quality old vine Paarl Chenin Blanc has a pronounced signature and this wine has it written all over it thanks to Duncan’s minimal intervention and focus on terroir and site. Elegant and harmonious across the palate, this wine is deliciously fleshy and glycerol, ultra pure and cool but also sophisticated and seamlessly light on its feet. You could not ask for more purity or varietal typicity. Duncan has really nailed it in 2018 with this fabulous old vine Chenin fruit.' - Greg Sherwood MW, 94/100 (Jan 2023)