South African white wines lauded by Wine Spectator magazine

Glenda — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:42 +0000

Under the heading “17 Impressive White Wines”, James Molesworth, the senior editor and South African wine expert of Wine Spectator magazine, raves about the consistency, diversity and value delivered by Cape Town Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc and Chenin blanc based wines. Eben Sadie’s delicious chenin-driven blend Palladuis is one of the applauded wines and his comments are,

Local Chenin blancs are finally coming into their own and it is definitely encouraging to see so many Chenins and Chenin-driven blends making a top listing such as this one in Wine Spectator. I think wine lovers are becoming more adventurous by trying lesser known varietals and eventually enjoying the complexity of flavours offered by a great Chenin blanc.

The wines are here listed together with the wine district or ward where they are produced.

SADIE FAMILY Palladius Swartland 2008

Wine Spectator

KEN FORRESTER Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch The FMC 2008

BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Chardonnay Overberg Crocodile’s Lair 2008

DE MORGENZON Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch 2008

BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Chardonnay Walker Bay Sans Barrique 2008

BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Chardonnay Walker Bay Missionvale 2008

HARTENBERG The Eleanor Stellenbosch 2006 •

HARTENBERG Chardonnay Stellenbosch 2007

RAATS FAMILY Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch 2008

BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Sauvignon Blanc Walker Bay Reserve 2009

KEN FORRESTER Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch 2009

BACKSBERG Chardonnay Western Cape 2007

BOUCHARD FINLAYSON Sauvignon Blanc Walker Bay 2009

MAN VINTNERS Chardonnay Coastal Region 2009

BACKSBERG Chenin Blanc Western Cape 2009

BACKSBERG Sauvignon Blanc Western Cape 2009

KEN FORRESTER Sauvignon Blanc Stellenbosch 2009

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MAN Vinter’s cabernet sauvignon 2008

Glenda — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:49 +0000

We are totally blown away by the quality of this inexpensive wine. This is an exceptionally smooth wine with an old world character and a steal at R37.95 ($5) . We tried it with a beautiful, underdone sirloin steak which enhanced it superbly.

Perfectly cooked sirloin steak

Partners in this venture are Tyrell Myburgh, Charles Back and Jose Conde and this is how they explain their purpose:

This MAN thing began with three friends and an idea: To make a wine that we ourselves would love to buy. Good quality, good value. Not exactly an epithany, but enough to motivate us into action. What do we name it? Keeping peace in the family we took the first initials of our wives. (We each have one wife, that is.) So that’s how we explained to Marie, Anette and Vicky that we were going to be “busy” most weekends. “It’s for you!” we told them.

Of course, we coulda just slapped another cute furry animal on the label, but thats been done. It’s time to focus again on what’s in the bottle. This is the opposite of a critter wine, this is a wine to drink with critters. Not too serious, but serious enough

MAN Vintners cab seems to have the unusual problem of high evaporation – the bottle was empty in no time, so easily did it glide down.

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