2014 Alheit Vineyards Chenin Blanc Radio Lazarus

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  5/26/2022 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium gold in colour, the aroma penetrates with quince jelly, hay, mango, William pear and a myriad of herbs: some fennel seeds, Scottish heather almost garrigue, Bay leaf, and Sage perhaps. As it opens, it reveals fynbos honey and leans more to sage with a warm tarmac or mineral hot stone element that adds complexity.
  A full-bodied wine, the entry is packed with flavour and concentration, displaying bags of fleshy pears and yellow apples and a smear of honey. This is sprinkled with spice and white pepper underpinned by a mineral-edge malic cleansing acidity that buoys up what is an oily broad mid-palate. There are many textural nuances of apricot skin, dried orange peel, and even pear skin. Excellent length and whilst it shows some signs of age the wine is still drinking nicely. Long finish.

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  1/16/2021 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Late night at Maison Dakota with Asparagus after the white burgs tasting. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of complex minerality, citrus lemon-lime, earth. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, rounded high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of damm complex minerality, sweet cream, citrus lemon tart with lime sorbet, mealy earth, cotton wool. Long finish.
  Excellent quality. Comes quite close to possibly the best Chenin Blanc I have had so far, from the New World no less. Drinking at peak. Old Vines power!

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  12/23/2020 - Fat1Wombat wrote: 89 Points

  Opened this with a great deal of anticipated and felt extremely disappointed.
  Deep straw color.
  The aroma was very forward, apricot and bruised fruit.
  The palate is rich although I was expecting much more freshness and depth. It’s broad, hot and hollow.

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  2/27/2016 - kostaslonis Likes this wine: 95 Points

  South African Chenin Blanc tasting (Oinoscent): Fine subtle complexity, ripe stone fruit, peach and apricot, lime, pear, lemon leaves, floral nuances, fresh and young. It is in the palate that the wine shows its real strength and power, full ripe stone fruit, nutty, oaky, mineral ,high intensity, massive strength, long finish.
  Outstanding quality, drinking now but would surely hold.
  Wine of the tasting for everyone, a class of its own.

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  2/27/2016 - Yiannis Likes this wine: 95 Points

  No notes taken but an absolutely stunning white combining minerality and fruitiness. Complex, balanced and very long.

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