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Radford Dale 'Vinum' Chenin Blanc, Stellenbosch 2020
Cracking barrel-fermented chenin from one of the producers we admire most in the Cape. Smart, generous, well-balanced, this would be a great match for tasty fowl, seafood or veg.
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Code: SA18361
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Chenin Blanc
- Now to 2024
- 13.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Screwcap
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
Radford Dale
From its modest base just outside Stellenbosch, Radford Dale delivers a large and impressive range under a number of labels, notably The Winery range (offering excellent-value benchmark examples) and the more premium and stylish Radford Dale wines. Most are single varietals, and all differ from the brawny Cape norm.
Many hands and different nationalities contribute to the success story here. Shareholders include Yalumba in Australia and French and English winemaking expertise in the shape of Edouard Labeye and Alex Dale, who founded the company in 1998, and whose Burgundian training formed his early love of and deft hand with chardonnay and pinot noir.
Vineyard sources range from the farm's own vineyards in the Helderberg area of Stellenbosch (where the ocean provides cooling breezes to the mountainside chenin blanc vines, which are planted granite and clay soils, and are up to 50 years old), as well as cool-climate Elgin for pinot noir, and southern-Rhône-like Swartland soils for old-vine carignan, grenache and mourvèdre.
The first bottlings were in 1998 and change and development has been a constant since, including the Land of Hope wines which support a trust established to benefit previously disadvantaged employees and their families. Social and environmental responsibility is central to the philosophy here and The Winery is accredited BEE (Black Economic Empowerment), IPW (Integrated Production of Wine) and WIETA (The Wine Industry Ethical Trading Association).
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