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Wine · South Africa
Avondale, Anima Chenin Blanc 2020
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About this wine
Avondale, Anima Chenin Blanc 2020 is a wine from South Africa. The published blend is Chenin Blanc. Farming: made with organic grapes. Published figures: 13.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.35.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Not published
- Wine
- Avondale, Anima Chenin Blanc
- Vintage
- 2020
From the label - Region
- South Africa
- Appellation
- Not published
- Grapes
- Chenin Blanc
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2020 vintage by the producer (avondalewine.co.za) - Sweetness
- Not published
- Farming
- Made with organic grapes
Certified organic by Control Union Certifications, printed on the bottle's label. - Alcohol
- 13.5%
From the label - Total acidity
- Not published
- Residual sugar
- Not published
- pH
- 3.35
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2020 vintage by the producer (avondalewine.co.za)
Tasting note
Winter melon, pineapple, lime, honey; softly wooded, supple Chenin Blanc; dense; gooseberry, quince, peach; soulful minerality
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2020 vintage, in the sheet's own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2020 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.
- Aged for
- kept on the lees for 12 months with regular battonage
- Made
- whole bunch pressed; naturally fermented in 500-litre French Oak barrels; 20% whole bunch fermented in Amphora and Qvevri
- Blend
- Chenin Blanc
Awards
None published.
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
13.5% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
absent No residual sugar figure published.
absent No total acidity figure published.
What the critics said
None on record.
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