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Botanica Mary Delany Collection Chenin Blanc, Citrusdal Mountain 2023
White Wine from South Africa - Olifants River
Ginny Poval’s Botanica wines are among the Cape’s most exciting. This elegantly honed chenin is from a cool, high-altitude vineyard planted in 1957 in the Citrusdal Mountain district, now known as Skurfberg. The elevation of the site brings freshness to its full, textured palate, which is intense and complex with flavours of apple, peach and fynbos, and a savoury edge. This can be a little shy at first so is worth decanting to show its full potential.
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Code: SA22051
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Chenin Blanc
- 75cl
- Now to 2030
- 13.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
- 642 g (Empty bottle weight)
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Botanica Wines
Botanica's main focus is on pinot noir and old-vine chenin, aiming to use minimally invasive winemaking techniques to produce wines that express their vineyards’ origins. Founded in 2008, it is run by Virginia (‘Ginny’) Povall, a New Yorker who still spends part of the year there, and a self-taught winemaker who began by making small batches at her home in America.
She quickly made an impressive impact on the South African wine scene: her very first vintage, 2009, was awarded five stars in the influential Platter's Guide 2011, an achievement that she went on to repeat with the 2011 and 2012 vintages in the 2013 and 2014 editions respectively, and many more stars have followed since.
Ginny is based on a flower farm in Devon Valley, just 10 minutes from central Stellenbosch, with stunning views from the holiday properties she has created there.
The Mary Delaney chenin comes from much further north in the Western Cape and is classified as a wine of the Citrusdal Mountain region. The grapes are sourced from a Clanwilliam vineyard of around 50 years of age, planted on Table Mountain sandstone at 800 metres above sea level, roughly 25 miles from the sea. It is part vinified in stainless steel and part fermented and aged in large French oak barrels.
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Among some astonishingly impressive bottles I've encountered in recent months are the tingling mandarin orange, subtle blossom and herby, citrus - pithy Botanica Mary Delany Collection Chenin Blanc.
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Read moreFrom the remote Citrusdal Mountains, 100 miles north of Cape Town, this elegant, textured wine is made by self-taught American winemaker Ginny Povall, who tends to bush vines planted in 1960. The nose...
TimAtkin.com
Read moreConsistently one of the best Chenin Blancs in the Cape, the Mary Delany Collection uses grapes from a 1960 block between 450 and 500 metres on the Citrusdal Mountain. Fermented and aged in older barrels,...
JancisRobinson.com
Full of fruit but tight as well. A wine with a real story to tell. See my tale of West Coast travels in South Africa. Such crystalline quality. JancisRobinson.com