Top wines of July 2023
By Christian Eedes, 1 August 2023
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Here are our ten most highly rated wines of last month:
Rall Ava Syrah 2022 – 98/100 (read the original review here)
Rall White 2022 – 97/100 (read the original review here)
Boplaas Cape Vintage Reserve Port 2006 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
Bruwer Vintners Liberté Pinotage 2021 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
Carinus Family Vineyards Polkadraai Heuwels Chenin Blanc 2022 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
City on a Hill Sky Chenin Blanc 2022 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
David & Nadia Plat’bos Chenin Blanc 2022 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
David & Nadia Skaliekop Chenin Blanc 2022 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
Kanonkop Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
Rall Syrah 2022 – 96/100 (read the original review here)
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Cuckoo land | 5 August 2023
Your obsession with Chenin is obvious. There are other varietals out there, you know?
Kwispedoor | 5 August 2023
Hi, Cuckoo. What other white cultivars from the particular producers on this list would you rate higher than these chenins of theirs?
Christian Eedes | 7 August 2023
Hi Cuckoo land, At the end of 2022, Chenin Blanc remained SA’s most planted variety with 16 485ha in the ground, the equivalent of 18.4% of the national vineyard. Among our top producers, Alheit, Badenhorst, David & Nadia, Mullineux, Raats, Rall, Reyneke, Savage, Thorne & Daughters and Van Loggerenberg, to name but a few, all choose to work with the variety. It’s not an “obsession” on our part but rather what SA does best. Nobody seriously proposes that Aligoté is in the same league or should get the same coverage as Chardonnay when it comes to Burgundy…