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Lourens Family Wines

2024

‘Lindi Carien’

White Blend   |   Western Cape - South Africa
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About

This was the second wine that Franco ever produced and, in 2016, he took the profit of the sales of the wine to buy an engagement ring for the woman who is now his wife, Lindi Carien, aptly named for this elegant white wine.  Franco’s vision is to create a wine that showcases the vintage from each of the sites he gets to play with. The 2024 vintage is a similar blend to the 2023, but gone is the Grenache Blanc as Franco opted for a bit more acidity with Colombard: 66% Chenin Blanc, 23% Verdelho, and 11% Colombard. This has always been a Chenin and Verdelho dominant blend, though over the years other grapes like Grenache Blanc and Palomino saw some play time. This wine continues to go from strength-to-strength and this wine has earned its place among the titans of white wines in the country.

The grapes were handpicked and sorted before all but Colombard were immediately whole-bunch pressed to old French barrels. The Colombard fermented whole-cluster on skins for 7 days before being pressed to 500 liter neutral barrels. Each variety fermented on the gross lees separately and after without any additions and after ten months the barrels were blended to tank where it settled naturally without any fining. The wine was bottled with a coarse filtration and a small addition of sulfur.

Stats

  • Grapes: 66% Chenin blanc - 23% Verdelho - 11% Colombard
  • Vineyard: All single sites each: Chenin Blanc (Swartland-Paardeberg & Piekenierskloof) - Verdelho (Stellenbosch) - Colombard (Swartland)
  • Vine Age: 42-63-years-old (Chenin Blanc) - 28-years-old (Verdelho) - 30-years-old (Colombard)
  • Soil Type: All are granitic sites except the Piekenierskloof Chenin Blanc on sandstone
  • Viticulture: Sustainable – dry-farmed
  • Fermentation: Native – whole-bunch pressed into 500L neutral oak barrels
  • Skin Contact: 7 days (Colombard)
  • Aging: 10 months in 500L neutral oak barrels
  • Alcohol: 13%
  • pH: 3.17
  • Total Acidity: 6.4 g/L
  • Total SO2: 63 ppm
  • Total Production: 466 cases
  • UPC: 0700083413888
  • SRP: $31.99

Tasting Note

An amoeba that dines at a 2-Michelin star restaurant…evolving and maybe a touch anxious, but with a world-class demeanor and selective taste. It opens with orchard fruit and citrus—pear, peach skin, apricot, and a flicker of papaya—but almost immediately the conversation shifts toward wild herbs, flint, crushed stone, and the quiet sweetness of acacia blossom. The palate has a lovely generosity without ever becoming broad, carried instead by a bright mineral spine, a touch of salinity, and the faint grip of citrus rind that keeps everything honest. It doesn’t chase richness or austerity; it simply occupies that rare space where energy and substance meet, leaving this edgy but refined feeling.

Press & Reviews

James Suckling

93

"Flinty and stony hints add to the wild herb, citrus rind, papaya and acacia honey aromas. It’s creamy, medium-bodied and fresh, with a fruit purity and a saline, mineral freshness. Long and stony. 66% old vine chenin blanc, 23% verdelho and 11% colombard. Drink now or hold."
- Claire Nesbitt

Vinous

91

"The 2024 White Blend Lindi Carien is a worth follow-up to the excellent '23. Peach skin and apricot unfurl on the nose, with hints of lanolin in the background, all delivered with fine delineation. The palate is well balanced, with a keen line of acidity, a welcome edginess to this Chenin that neatly counterbalances the peach and persimmon notes on the finish. Lovely."

- Neal Martin

The WineMag

94

"Exotic aromatics of pear, peach, orange, pineapple with potpourri and spice in the background. The palate is rich and flavourful with tangy acidity and finish that is savoury and lightly grippy. Alc: 13.27%."

- Christian Eedes
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