Thamnus Chardonnay 2022
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Thamnus, part of the ocean-influenced Cape South Coast district, is relatively new to the Overberg wine scene. 10-hectares of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir fan across the lower slopes of the Klein River mountains, just outside of Stanford. A synergistic, regenerative concern, there are carbon sequestering sheep, beehives, and olive trees… It borrows its name from the land too, Orothamnus Zeyheri, a rare fynbos rose is found only in their boundaries as well as in the nearby nature reserve. Winemaker PJ Geyer brings his well-honed skills to this pastoral paradise, having worked for the Moueix family for eight years at Chateau Mazeyres, Fonroque and Moulin du Cadet. The 2022 opens with the freshness of an Overberg dawn; dewdrop, wet stone, fynbos and hints of ginger-thatch. Orange citrus, peach and melon deepen into the core, riven with an electric, cooling acidity. This is startlingly alive, and so of its place.
Multi-award-winning wine writer and critic Malu Lambert writes for a variety of international and local publications. Malu won the title of the Mont Blanc Emerging Wine Writer of the Year at the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards 2019. She also won the Veritas Young Wine Writer in 2015. Most recently she co-authored Klein Constantia: The Home of Vin de Constance, which was the winner of the ‘Discovering and Presenting Wines’ category of the 2023 OIV. Malu writes for numerous South African titles, and was the wine editor of Food & Home for five years. Internationally, she has also written for Jancis Robinson, Decanter, The Buyer, Falstaff, Club Oenologique, Drinks International, Thirteen Barrels, The Japanese Times, and more. She is also a taster on the Platter's Guide, South Africa’s most definitive and respected guide to wine. Malu is a regular on South Africa's judging panels, including Winemag, Wine-of-the-Month Club and was recently the chairperson for the inaugural Fine Wine Awards by Amex. She also judges for Decanter, IWSC and Concours Mondial du Sauvignon.
