Plat'Bos, Chenin Blanc, Swartland, 2025
Racy, cleansing and vital, the 2025 Plat’Bos is built around lean citrus fruit, pink fruit and grapefruit pith. Its naturally low pH gives it a particularly tense profile, with stony minerality and a firm, linear structure slowly emerging with air. It is reputed as one of the Cape’s best Chenins. The 2025 promises to be a long-lived expression and will require patience in bottle. Plat’Bos is a north-west-facing vineyard planted in 1981 on pure decomposed granite and picked over multiple passes. Just 1,200 bottles were produced.
critic reviews
From vines planted in 1981 on Paardeberg granite, the 2025 Chenin Blanc Plat'bos actually comes from a specific part of the parcel (the rest goes into the regular Chenin Blanc cuvée). The nose is very well defined and focused with hints of clementine, pear and crushed oyster shells, nuanced but entrancing. The palate has a slightly edgier, slightly bitter opening with touches of desiccated orange peel and an underlying flintiness. Very precise on the finish, this is a superb expression of the variety, very terroir-driven.