Wine Review - 2010 False Bay Chenin Blanc: Full Flavoured White Wine At A Less Than Full Flavoured Price
Last evening we had this wine from False Bay Wines . From South Africa it is a very full flavourful Chenin Blanc grown and produced on the Western Cape. It is also known as Steen in South Africa but it retains one of its French names in this version. Unbeknownst to us Chenin Blanc is also known as Pineau de la Loire in France and is a grape that has a lot of interpretations in terms of wine making (thank you again Wikipedia). This version is a crisp and full flavoured white wine. It has a lot of nice smells and tastes and at $13 is a great value. In the glass it is a very pale golden colour and has seen no oak according to the False Bay website. It is a light wine visually which belies the actual body in the glass. The nose is very apple/pear with definitely a starfruit undertone. It is a really nice aromatic wine and is also light compared to the taste. Now onto the taste, it has such a great mouthfeel for what would be considered a lighte...