2016 Sigurd Barossa Valley Chenin Blanc

There are gold Chenin Blancs. I cannot go past a new Chenin Blanc, for it remains a rarity in Oz, with SA Coriole’s as my standard of excellence. In my mind, Chenin remains, like Coriole’s, pale in colour and light on the palate. Once, only once, at a restaurant in Sydney did I see a long speciality list of Chenin Blancs: we had a French one which was similarly delicious to Coriole’s. The South Africans make it stronger in colour and flavour. And the 2016 Sigurd Barossa Valley Chenin Blanc is one such, supported in its weight by being unfiltered. The typography for Sigurd, for this grape, is appropriately in green; Daniel Graham, the winemaker uses yellow for his Sigurd Chardy.