it blends 100 MGP-sourced barrels of bourbon aged nine years
mineral-driven Sancerre with subtle almond and white peach notes
working twelve hectares outside the village of Monein in the Pyrenean foothills west of Pau
If the phylloxera angle is wanted
Dry Graves white from a 17th-century estate designated a historical monument in 2008
Naude, Werfdans Cinsault, 2017 so031023 portuguese round up offer it blends 100 MGP-sourced barrelsIan Naude works almost exclusively with old Cape bush vines, and Werfdans is his old vine Cinsault from Darling, on the cool Atlantic side of the Western Cape. The fruit comes from vines planted in the late 1970s, vinified with almost no intervention beyond a touch of sulfur, then patiently held back: 2017 was only released six years after vintage, and arrives now at eight years on, fully in stride. It's everything great Cape Cinsault should be: