Dune Ténéré Chenin Blanc (Orange) 2024

Dune Ténéré explores different winemaking techniques to create a textured, complex wine using skin-fermented Chenin Blanc from Blewitt Springs

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Dune Ténéré Chenin Blanc (Orange) 2024
"In a clear bottle, showing off its apricot hue, perhaps serving as a caveat for less adventurous drinkers. Yes, it’s a skin-contact wine: chenin blanc with three weeks on skins. (The cuvée name, with its three jaunty acutes, is a desert that spans Niger and Chad.) The skins have added a fine, sandy (very apt) tannin, which is balanced out by an increase in viscosity and slipperiness, with apple skin, pickled ginger, preserved lemon, cumquat, quince paste and a pumice-like mineral character. There’s good pep and freshness here, though it needs food." 93 Points, Special Value, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

The next Generation of the Lloyd family (Coriole) planting their flag in the Vale. A new project from brothers Duncan and Peter Lloyd, Dune wines sees them step out from the shadow of Coriole wines. Sourcing fruit from a single vineyard in the Blewitt Springs sub-region of McLaren Vale. Organic in conversion, this sandy vineyard has been completely re-imagined since being purchased by the brothers in 2009. Planting and grafting over southern Mediterranean varietals has seen them create a unique range of blends alongside some classic and so2 free shiraz.

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