Wednesday, August 23, 2023

David & Nadia tasting at Culture Wine Bar

A chance to taste the newly released 2022 vintage Swartland wines of David and Nadia Sadie was exciting
It was arranged at the Culture Club venue in Grub and Vine in Cape Town by Karen Visser of Great Domaines

The lineup of the 2022 David and Nadia Vintage release for the Great Domaines trade tasting

David and Nadia Sadie farm at Paardebosch Farm on Paardeberg Mountain

The tasting was well attended by members of the wine trade and media

The wines we were to taste. It was a really impressive view of what good winemaking can produce

Wine being poured by Karin Visser of Great Domaines wines.  Impressive glasses for the tasting

David and Nadia also poured

All the wines are grown in the Swartland from several different sites
There was a discussion about corks and they now prefer to use 100% Diam, which gives them good results

We began with the Chenin Blanc and Aristargos
The 2022 Chenin has 20% new oak the wine is from old vines. It's a classic Swartland Chenin
Clean fruit on the nose, some ripeness
Lovely layered fruit on the palate which is a blend of tropical and golden fruit, with a long finish
Aristargos is an unusual blend of Chenin Blanc , Semillon, Claret Blanche and Verdelho
All pickings are timed differently
Vanilla oak, greyness from the semillon, minerality and good peach and apricot fruit on the nose
Superb on the palate with integrated fruit, it is exciting and goes on and on, with good acidity and in full balance
A food wine and rather Southern French in character

Hoësteen 2022 Chenin Blanc is complex on the nose with hints of lees/wood. From clay slopes in Malmesbury
Clean, crisp and full with long flavours, a little chalky tannin, another great food wine
2021 was the most extreme vintage with heat waves and they lost 10 to 15% of the crop
All the grapes come from dryland farms
Rondevlei 2022 Chenin Blanc comes from a single vineyard in Malmesbury West, a flat oasis
Made in concrete, with a portion in barrel. Richness of fruit, a whiff of oak. Golden and complex, it draws you in
On the palate, clean fruit, great structure, good acid balance with limes appearing on the end with dark oak

Platbos 2022 Chenin Blanc is from 3.7 hectares, their biggest vineyard
They are grafting and replanting on old neglected vineyards
An ethereal nose, golden fruit with wood supporting, very different, very good
Clean and crisp with underlying richness and fullness in layers
Skaliekop 2022 Chenin Blanc has mature fruit and vanilla oak on the nose
Ripe loquat fruit with more crisp lime on the end palate, with some pastry

Grenache Noir 2022 is made in concrete and older barrels
Wildness on the nose, it wants to break free with mulberry and morello cherry fruit and a whiff of dark oak
It fills the palate with lovely red berry fruit, some soft chalky tannins and a good fruit acid balance,
a long finish with some salty licorice on the end
Epidios 2021 is a blend of Grenache noir 38%, Syrah 36%, Pinotage 10%, Carignan 9%, Cinsault 7%
An interesting nose as vanilla appears first, then the Pinotage & Cinsault showing their Pinot like character,
with cherry and raspberry, then darker fruit and spice from the Syrah
Chalk and fruit circle the palate with pepper, sour cherry, rhubarb and mulberry, with more chalk on the end

An exceptional, educational and exciting tasting of well-made wines
Thank you both Sadies and Karin for arranging it

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