Sadie Family
Mev Kirsten 2020
Cape Heritage
About the SessionA selection of South Africa’s finest wines, inspired by our rich wine heritage and the unique character of the Cape Winelands. Chenin Blanc is celebrated for its remarkable versatility, producing an exceptional range of wine styles, particularly in South Africa, home to the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in the world. These historic vineyards continue to produce wines of great diversity, elegance, and ageing potential. The Pinotage selection showcases leading producers, all of whom have become consistent flag bearers for this proudly South African variety.
ZAR 15 000
About this Item
The 2020 vintage allowed Eben Sadie's extraordinary investment in the Mev Kirsten vineyard to show its full reward, years of organic work and careful viticulture in this unique Stellenbosch site bearing fruit in a wine of profound complexity and the kind of regal, aged-vine concentration that earns comparison with Grand Cru Burgundy. Sadie Family's 2020 Mev Kirsten earned 98 points from Tim Atkin MW. Mev Kirsten originates from the oldest Chenin Blanc vineyard in Stellenbosch, planted in 1920 at the foot of Botmanskop, South Africa's oldest known Chenin Blanc block: an extraordinary survivor farmed with biodynamic principles in deep, difficult, moisture-sensitive soils that produce wines of towering complexity, tannic grip and extraordinary longevity. The wine is a portion harvested early for freshness and fermented in 500-litre casks, blended with late-harvested old-vine fruit fermented in neutral foudre.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
"One of the Cape's most profound whites. The oldest Chenin Blanc in Stellenbosch, performing at a level that demands comparison with the world's great whites." - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2021, 98/100 (Sep 2021)
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