Plat'Bos, Chenin Blanc, Swartland, 2024

Tighter and more linear and grippy as one would expect from this famously driven wine, which is an important base for the main Chenin Blanc label, the 2024 Plat Bos offers up an intense mix of fresh stone fruits, red berries and salty, chalky, lightly smoky leesy complexity. Picked over multiple passes with components ranging from 10-14% ABV, the final blend lands at just under 12% - remarkable given the intensity and complexity of the wine in the bottle. Plat Bos is a northwestern facing slope planted 1981 on pure decomposed granite. Just 2000 bottles produced.