Carmen Stevens Chenin Blanc 2022

The CBL shows freshly cut winter melon with ripe pear, served with a squeeze of sweet sunrise grapefruit aromas. The palate entrance is smooth and elegant and complemented by sweet grapefruit concentration that adds depth and length of flavour. The wine carries a gunflint minerally note indicative of the concrete exposure the wine enjoyed.

Our Chenin Blanc in grown on decomposed granite soils in the Paarl wine region of South Africa.

All fruit is hand-picked and sorted to enable whole bunch pressing of the fruit. The final wine is a combination of spontaneous and selected yeast ferments. The greater portion is fermented in concrete egg-shaped tanks.

The wine was left on the lees in the concrete eggs for 8 months before bottling.