chenin blanc veiling cape winemakers guild

David & Nadia

Chenin Blanc, Veiling, Cape Winemakers Guild, 2021

Name: Chenin Blanc, Veiling, Cape Winemakers Guild
Brand: David & Nadia
Price: 561.13 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2021
75cl
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£93.52
2021
6x75cl
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£561.13

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

An intense, jostling Chenin that while present stops short of being showy. Packed with white berries, golden apples, honey, citrus fruits, blossom with an overall crystalline quality, it’s not a lavish wine, more about detail and intellectual focus, much like David Sadie himself. Veiling means ‘auction’ in Afrikaans. Produced from a blend of highly acclaimed single vineyard sites: 50% Skaliekop, 40% Plat Bos and 10% Hoe-Steen. A combination of bass and high notes, the grapes were cooled and hand-sorted before being whole cluster pressed, fermented spontaneously in used French oak barrels for 11 months on the fine lees. Only 50 cases were submitted to the auction.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93/100

Anthony Mueller,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 Veiling Chenin Blanc offers delicate aromas of citrus peel and a white rock minerality with a fresh and exquisite frame of underripe peaches, fresh Meyer lemon and elements of seaspray and citrus blossom on the nose. Light to medium-bodied, the palate delivers an essence of crunchy yellow apples, delightful mineral tension and a soft, lingering spiciness with a kiss of phenolic bitterness across the mid-palate. The wine glides to a lovely, food-friendly finish that expresses varietal purity and a sense of place. This is absolutely gorgeous Chenin!

drinking window 2023 - 2034

date of review 09/2022

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.