The biggest selling white wine in the store is Indaba Chenin Blanc 2009 vintage. When the winemaker, Bruwer Raats was visiting last month, he strongly urged trying the Chardonnay when it arrived. Salesman brought it to taste today. The drought of tasting tons of weak white wines is over. This Chardonnay is tremendous.
It is NOT oaky California style. It is rich South African style. Not lean smokey Chablis either. It is luscious and minerally at the same time. A wine oxymoron. Compared to the Chenin Blanc, it is the extra richness that you notice first, and then you can taste the flavor difference. Chardonnay tastes like Chardonnay and Chenin tastes like Chenin. Raats told me that this 2009 vintage is as great for red as the whites too. Can't wait to try the better ones....in a couple of years.
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