MMAD Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2024

Fruit is hand harvested, half crushed and half whole bunch pressed. Fermented in a mix of concrete and large format oak, before maturation in French oak puncheons. A posy of daisies, yellow citrus and white apple flesh. There is the summer breeze of scorched sand and frangipani, bright and hopeful. The brilliance of this wine is the deliberate way it moves from floral scent to sandy earth, to woven threads of creamy cotton and back to tree fruit again. Its cheese curd-like mouth feel is countered by long lines of natural acidity. It means that you never get tired of sipping it. Another successful bottling of tension, agility and seashore minerality. Drink now or it will cellar and evolve in the cellar in 5-6 years, although I am still yet to hear of anyone who has managed to keep some aside.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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