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5 Stars 2021 Platter’s South African Wine Guide
Weighty, concentrated & complex wild-fermented chenin; 19 (97 pts) gets 7th maximum rating in this guide, 5th in succession. Bottelary Hills bushvines, now 55 years, delivers a super-pure yet fleshy wine. Top notes of lemon zest & marmalade botrytis evolve into peach & tangy nectarine. Focused, clean acidity drives the juicy fruit to a long & honeyed finish.
94 pts Tim Atkin Mw 2020
55 is a reference to the age of this remarkable dry land vineyard, which was planted in 1964. Wild yeast fermented in 16% new wood, the resulting wine is a Chenin that combines intensity and concentration with focus and precision. Pasty, quince and citrus flavours are complimented by refined oak spice. 2022-29
Grapes for this wine is harvested from a 55 year old single vineyard of Chenin blanc on the slopes of the Bottelary Hills, hence the number on the front of the bottle referring to the age of the vines in the year the wine was made.
55 year old bush vines from Bottelary property planted in ironstone. “We are just custodians of old vines. They know how best to express their fruit in that particular vintage and we just have to shepherd that into bottle,” Tertius Boshoff.
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