2024 MMAD Chenin Blanc 750ml

Pickup is available at Sip & Cellars. (Physical shop add:1123 Burke Road, Kew VIC 3101)

Textural, saline and finely structured from one of Australia’s oldest Chenin sites. The 2024 MMAD Chenin Blanc comes from dry-grown bush vines planted in 1964 at Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale. Set in deep Maslin sands over ironstone and cooled by afternoon sea breezes from the Gulf St Vincent, this elevated vineyard produces fruit of rare definition and clarity.

Harvested by hand and split between whole-bunch pressing and gentle crushing, the juice was fermented with indigenous yeasts in a mix of concrete and seasoned French oak. Extended time on lees brought depth without dulling the natural energy. No new oak was used, allowing the site’s stony minerality and saline lift to remain at the fore. This is a precise and quietly complex wine that delivers both tension and breadth, shaped by one of the country’s most expressive old-vine vineyards.