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The Chenin Blanc revolution in South Africa
Tim James, www.grape.org.za :
I'm surprised that you should write that Chenin Blanc is 'a grape dismissed as irredeemably cheap in places such as South Africa and California'. This simply is not true in South Africa at least, and hasn't been so for at least 10 years. There has been something approaching a revolution in the way Chenin is treated here (unfortunately so in many cases, as it means quite a bit of over-oaking), but there is now quite a range of Chenins, from dry to dessert, that are both good and expensive (in local terms). Of course it remains a 'workhorse' grape as well, used for eveyrthing from...
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