2012 Mullineux Chenin Blanc Kloof Street Old Vine

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  8/11/2014 - YWG Wine Guy Likes this wine: 89 Points

  25$ @ Deluca - nice expression, meets my own QPR for whole package. The first tasting note is long, and along the same lines for me. Nose is a little light, don't appreciate much complexity other than some citrus/pear/minerality? Palate is on the richer side - med+ bodied, light+ acid, and with more fruit complexity along the lines of yes, pear/pineapple and there is that faint background of petrol or flinty metal? To be clear, this is a tasty experience and one i would try again and recommend this for perhaps a tasting of Chenin Blancs...

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  3/19/2014 - Fur in the glass Likes this wine:

  Drank this too far back to really remember. Just that it seemed to do better than the Pecan Stream Chenin Blanc from South Africa we had had recently as well

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  1/28/2014 - ErikMercier Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Once again I am surprised by a SA wine. Very elegant and stylish.
  
  Clear, pale lemon in the glass with a tinge of green. The nose is bright with hints of green apple and candied lime peel. There's a slight petrol note but not entirely the same flint or wet wool quality it's french counterpart would have. Tons of minerality.
  
  The palate is fresh and weighted simultaneously - almost like lemon custard. Riper fruit come across here like pineapple and peach - certainly not in an artificial way. Tremendous length, prickly acid, all around a well balanced wine.
  
  I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this wine will actually improve over the next couple years.

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