Julia Jenkins
Discover more about Chenin Blanc.
- Credit: Flagship Wines
Wet wool, green apples, barley sugar, honeysuckle and honey. Who’d have thought that these adjectives would be used to describe the same grape variety: Chenin Blanc?
At worst wet wool is being kind, at its best apricots and honey describe amazing wines. The home of Chenin Blanc in the northern hemisphere is the Loire Valley in France and it is also widely planted in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia too.
This grape variety is chameleon-like in the sense that it can produce wines that are bone dry and minerally though all grades of sweetness in luscious dessert wines and is also a good base wine for sparkling wines.