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Paulus Wine Co.

2022

‘Bosberaad’

Chenin Blanc   |   Swartland - South Africa
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About

Paul Jordaan had plenty of experience with Chenin Blanc and the Swartland working alongside Eben Sadie as the winemaker. Paul met his winemaking business partner Pauline Roux in 2016 while she was working with Adi Badenhorst on the Paardeberg. After realizing they shared the same winemaking vision, in 2018 they started a brand together, Paulus Wine Co. The duo’s first wine ‘Bosberaad’ loosely translates to a ‘gathering in nature’, and in this case a literal one. The aim is to produce a wine in partnership with nature, finding and maintaining that natural balance between all the controllable and uncontrollable, visible and invisible elements involved. Searching for the ‘right’ vineyard to launch was actually quite easy as Paul lives adjacent to the in-demand Schreiber’s ‘Waterval Farm’ in the Siebritskloof Valley of the Paardeberg. The organically farmed, bush vines were planted in 1980 on pure granite with granitic sand overlaid at 700 feet in elevation on an east facing ridge, limiting potent sunshine.

The fruit was handpicked and whole-bunch pressed directly to old French barrels and one concrete egg where the juice fermented and naturally settled. The wine was kept on the lees and malolactic fermentation occurred naturally. After ten months of aging the wine was racked and bottled without fining or filtration and a sensible hit of sulfur dioxide.

 

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard: Waterval Farm (Paardeberg): Kweperfontein & Waterkelp Blocks – farmed by Franziska Wickens
  • Vine Age: 43-years-old
  • Soil Type: Decomposed granitic sand atop rocky granite outcrops
  • Viticulture: Practicing Organic - dry-farmed
  • Fermentation: Native – whole-bunch pressed into oak barrels and a concrete egg
  • Skin Contact: None, but long pressing
  • Aging: 10 months on the lees in fermentation vessels
  • Alcohol: 13%
  • pH: 3.29
  • Total Acidity: 5.7 g/L
  • Total SO2: 73 ppm
  • Total Production: 350 cases
  • UPC: 781718118378

Tasting Note

The nose exhibits a variety of stone fruits like pear and apricot accompanied by some hints of lemon zest, quince, orange blossoms and honeycomb. There is a certain flintiness/saltiness to the wine which runs from the nose straight through to the palate and just pulls everything nicely together. The slightest hint of reduction almost emphasizes and elevates that freshness.

Press & Reviews

Tim Atkin, MW

91

"Paul Jordaan sources the grapes for this Swartland Chenin Blanc from a 1980 bush vine parcel on decomposed granite, not far from his day job at the Sadie Family Wines' cellar. Floral and waxy, with sage and fynbos aromas, subtle wood, quince and apple fruit and chiselled, stony precision. 2023-28."
- Tim Atkin, MW
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Paulus Wine Co.

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Swartland

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South Africa

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