Community Tasting Notes 19

• SoccerMark wrote: 79 points

  December 3, 2022 - Past it'd date, it had turned

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  May 16, 2021 - Made with fruit harvested from a vineyard planted in 1972, picked in four different tries. Fermented spontaneously in oak, aged for 11 months in oak barrels (25% new). 14,24% alcohol, 3,7 g/l residual sugar, 6,7g/l acidity and pH 3,30. Tasted blind.
  
  Pale-to-medium-deep honey color. Sweet-toned, creamy and somewhat toasty nose with complex aromas of cooked cream, honey, some pineapple, light yellow apple tones, a little bit of woody sawdust, a floral hint of honeysuckle and a touch of ripe apricot. The wine is ripe, moderately full-bodied and slightly viscous on the palate with complex, somewhat evolved flavors of creamy oak, pineapple, some toast and browned butter, a little bit of red apple, light woody notes of sawdust, a sweet hint of honeydew melon and a touch of tangy saline minerality. The precise, almost racy acidity lends great sense of structure and intensity to the wine. The finish is rich, complex and very long with intense flavors of toasty oak, some crème brûlée, a little bit of pineapple, light mineral notes of tangy salinity, oaky hint of wood spice and browned butter and a touch of juicy, ripe apricots.
  
  I had tasted the wine before, upon its release, and back then the wine felt just clumsy and woody. You could taste there was great fruit beneath the oak, but all you could really taste back then was the new oak influence. Didn't think much of the wine that time. However, this time the wine was just singing! First many people guessed a very ripe vintage Burgundy with some age, perhaps 2009 - based on the obviously ripe, almost tropical fruit character and slightly noticeable alcohol of the wine - but then the guesses turned to new world Chardonnay. South African Chenin Blanc followed almost immediately. Overall the wine is very true to the style of South African Chenin, but what really took me by surprise was the complete transformation from an oaky new world wine to a very complex, almost Burgundian white with great sense of finesse and structure. The wine is drinking wonderfully right now, but it will in all likelihood continue to improve for at least a handful of years more - and keep good for much longer. Fine stuff, a bargain at 14,90€.

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• aquacongas wrote: 90 points

  April 29, 2021 - not blind
  At the end too alcoholic and one dimensional, missing fruit and elegance. Next day more opened but still too chubby. Great South African CB could recall to a Chardonnay style. 90

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• Spitburgunder wrote: flawed

  April 9, 2021 - Flawed (corked)

• ppandian wrote: 89 points

  June 12, 2020 - Enjoyed this wine!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type White
• Producer DeMorgenzon
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country South Africa
• Region Coastal Region
• SubRegion Stellenbosch
• Appellation Stellenbosch
• UPC Code 6009820750069

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• In Cellars 92 (31%)
• Consumed 205 (69%)

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