Chenin Blanc, Mason Road, Brookdale Estate 2025
Silver, International Wine & Spirit Competition 2025
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Why this wine
Chenin Blanc is South Africa's signature white, and the old blocks are the ones worth chasing — here vines planted in 1985 and 1993, salvaged when the estate was rescued in 2015. Mostly tank-fermented with a little old oak and eleven months on the lees, so it keeps its freshness and gains texture. Serious Chenin at an everyday price.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chenin Blanc
- Region
- Paarl, South Africa
- Alcohol
- 13.00%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Short (3-5 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Poultry & Pork, Seafood, Spicy Dishes
How it tastes
Juicy tropical fruit and pear lead, with apple freshness and a lick of lime on the finish. Dry and medium-bodied, the acidity bright, a salty, faintly creamy edge underneath from time on the lees. Chenin Blanc 100%.
The producer
Brookdale Estate sits below the Klein Drakenstein Mountains in Paarl, a 67-hectare property left overgrown until the Rudd family recognised its potential and acquired it in 2015, with the aim of making world-class wine from varieties still unusual in South Africa. The Mason Road Chenin Blanc comes from the oldest vines that could be salvaged, blocks planted in 1985 and 1993 at the foot of the Du Toitskloof Pass, on granite soils with clay and quartz that hold water through the warm summer; the site climbs from 220 to 330 metres, where strong winds cut yields and cool a warm, dry district, and the trellised vines are worked and picked by hand. The 1993 block was picked in four batches at different degrees of ripeness, destemmed, gently pressed and settled overnight, then fermented in a mix of stainless steel and old French oak barrels, the final blend assembled after eleven months on the lees.
Food and drinking
Serve at 8-10°C. It works with roast chicken, grilled white fish, a Thai green curry, or a young goat's cheese. Drinking now and over the next three to five years. Sealed under screwcap. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.