Delheim Wild Ferment Chenin Blanc 2024

This is South African Chenin Blanc at its seriously tasty best. It's got those juicy stone fruit flavours and just a hint of vanilla spice from hanging out in oak barrels. They use grapes from old vines up high on the mountain and let the wine basically make itself with natural yeasts. This gives it a real sense of where it comes from. It's all nicely balanced and lingers on the palate - a really delicious example of what Chenin Blanc can do.

This lovely wine's perfectly ready to crack open now, but it'll keep for a bit if you fancy. Perfect with a roast chicken dinner or turkey and all the trimmings.

Delheim Wines is a long-established family estate on the Simonsberg slopes above Stellenbosch, tucked into the hills where vines and fynbos run side by side. Michael ‘Spatz’ Sperling, who arrived on the farm in the 1950s, is the one who, through his energy and drive, really built its reputation and put it on the Stellenbosch map. It remains very much in family operation today. They were among the first to take wine tourism seriously, helping to establish the Stellenbosch Wine Route in 1971 and setting a pattern that hundreds of Cape wineries have since followed. While not one of the Cape’s ‘big names’ or a ‘cutting-edge’ producer, they’re simply a well-respected estate going about their business with skill and dedication.