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Wine · South Africa

Avondale, Anima Chenin Blanc

Pay online, pick up at the shop, 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday).

The tasting card

From the label

Read off the bottle in our own photograph.

Vintage on the label

2020

Alcohol

13.5%

Size on the label

750 ml

Importer

Baobab Wines, Manhasset, NY

From the tech sheet

Printed for the 2020 vintage by the producer (avondalewine.co.za). A figure the sheet repeats word for word from another year is left out.

pH

3.35

Grapes

Chenin Blanc

Farming

Made with organic grapes
Certified organic by Control Union Certifications, printed on the bottle's label.

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

About this bottle

Full notes are coming soon. We only publish what we can confirm from the producer or the bottle itself, so this page grows as we check it. Ask us in the shop, or ask Chaz, our AI sommelier, at the bottom of the page.