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Article: Wine: Tasty chenin blanc
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- Gloucestershire Echo, The
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Chenin Blanc can make sweet, luscious, golden wines, in the
Loire.
It also makes sparkling wine, dry wines, medium-dry and, in fact,
just about every style. Within the Loire it really is a fascinating
grape and the wines can be complex.
However, there's an awful lot of dire, pointless wine made from
Chenin Blanc. And while I love South Africa, and am impressed with
most of their wines, their Chenin Blanc - in most cases - is just
not worth drinking.
So, I specifically asked the supermarkets to send tasty Chenin,
and they did.
We had tie for first place between Cape Grace and Ken Forrester.
The Cape Grace 2007 is pounds5.19 from Somerfield and has an
appealing creamy, waxy smell, like apple ...