David Harvey | Bright lemon hue. The first wine with no haziness, period. Looks like it has escaped from another tasting. Lemony, clean, pure nose. I am fairly certain that this might not meet the strictest definitions of “natural”—nothing added, nothing taken away, etc. This appears to have been fined and/or filtered, ie taking away physical particles from the wine. But the nose is lovely and the palate broad, textured. The acidity comes slightly out of nowhere, all appley—might it be from blocked MLF or added tartaric? One would like to know. Overall, a good wine, but perhaps in the wrong flight? I should say I would rather have an almost-natural wine than an almost-toxic one. | 14

Andrew Jefford | Full gold, but clear. Rather soapy-sweet aromas; superficially attractive but I can’t find much beneath those ingenuous charms. On the palate, this is unattractively thin and acid; the alcohol levels suggest it was picked insanely early. I don’t see the point at all. | 9

Isabelle Lageron | Nose shows almost metallic notes initially, disappearing after 15 minutes or so of opening. Notes of quince, with a dash of green lime on the palate, which shows lean texture, almost unripe, crunchy apples. Overall, a restrained, almost cool-climate wine, demonstrating that elegant wines can be made in the New World. Clean and juicy, with a complexity that needs time to open up. I would decant this wine, because it would bring it out of its shyness. | 16.5

Francis Percival | Bright, really bracing acidity. Honey and apples, but this is in no way an autumnal wine; while there is definitely something dairy to the nose, it feels more along the powdered-milk spectrum than cream or custard. Austere. Nothing voluptuous here at all, and the wine teeters on the edge of shrill. | 9

David Williams | Very clean and bright on the eye. The searing, eye-watering acidity is intensely bracing, but is there sufficient Chenin apple-store character and flesh to carry it? It seems a little skinny texturally, the acidity a little too febrile, but there is an invigorating clarity and face-slapping brightness at work here. | 13.5

Doug Wregg | Bright golden—apples all the way from granny smith to coxes, then throw in some golden plums with buttery lees aromas. Vivid and vivacious in the mouth, with sapid, juicy flavors ricocheting around the mouth. Finish is clean and mouthwatering, with a fugitive note of fynbos (garrigue) bequeathing an additional note. For a light-bodied white, this has plenty of nuance and complexity. | 18