Skaliekop, Chenin Blanc, Swartland, 2024

Beautiful pulpy white and yellow fruits with a balm-like quality and a wash of upright, salty, dried-pineapple like Chenin, the acidity more integrated at this point than it can be; hugely persistent and classy. Skaliekop is a rare shale outcrop on the Paardeberg mountain planted in 1985, producing Chenins that David Sadie often describes as having immense “lateral tension”. Ageing is carried out in used oak barrels. Just 2000 bottles produced.