2019 Brash Higgins 'CHN' Chenin Blanc

Aromas of honey, straw, and real lemonade integrate with notes of water chestnut and wet stones. The palate features a soft entry and good weight that tightens into a saline, oyster shell finish with a chalky pucker.

Winemaker Brad Hickey sources handpicked fruit from 30 year old vines that are sustainably farmed. In the cellar, the grapes undergo two days of skin contact followed by a wild fermentation in neutral French oak barriques. The wine matures on its lees for twelve months in six-year-old barrels to build texture and savory complexity without adding new oak flavors.

The fruit comes from the Willamba Hill Vineyard in the Blewitt Springs subregion of McLaren Vale. This site is defined by ancient, 50 million year old North Maslin sands over ironstone and clay. These deep beach sands provide the wine with its distinct marine influence and briny mineral character.