2021 Aaldering Chenin Blanc Florence

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  5/16/2023 - forceberry wrote: 79 Points

  100% Chenin Blanc. 13% alcohol.
  
  Pale, neutral whitish-green color. The nose feels youthful and somewhat primary with aromas of chopped herbs, some appley fruit, a little bit of unripe pear and a candied hint of fruit drops. The wine feels crisp, tart and quite primary on the palate with a rather light body and somewhat thin and neutral flavors of wet rocks, some apple peel bitterness, a little bit of crunchy white currant, light candied primary tones and a hint of key lime. The bracingly high acidity lends great sense of structure and energy to the wine, but feels a bit unbalanced in relation to the light body and understated fruit. The finish is crisp, somewhat thin and medium in length with a bone-dry aftertaste of Granny Smith apple, some apple peel bitterness, a little bit of key lime, light crunchy notes of white currants and a hint of tangy salinity.
  
  A young, harmless and quite linear everyday white with tons of acidity and relatively little fruit and body. Furthermore, the overall feel is still very primary and at times even quite candied with its still rather prominent fermentation esters. I can imagine the wine might get a bit better over a few years as it loses those candied primary notes, but with its light body and understated fruit, this doesn't feel like a wine that could be aged for a particularly long time. All in all, I'm not impressed - and I wasn't the only one. The wine received zero points from the twelve participants in our tasting of ten Chenin Blancs, making it finish on shared last place.

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