Clotted cream and zesty fruit and minerality harmonised in a chord. Some buttery pineapple, lime and that classic chenin wet wool. Concentrated yet elegantly framed. with a faint flinty hint of reduction. Makes you think of Savennieres - perhaps?! Franco is such a perfectionist that he didn't make a 2019, concerned that he'd missed the optimum picking window. This is a delivering a ton of pleasure now but it's a wine that evolve beautifully over three to five years, and will keep going for considerably longer.

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Franco Lourens spent some years working with the great Chris Alheit before setting to focus entirely on his own range of wines. This is a breathtakingly self-assured range and almost in the blink of an eye places Franco into the very top bracket of top-end New Wave SA producers. Franco is a leading light of South Africa’s New Wave and champion of old-vine Chenin, among others. He is inevitably set to join the likes of Chris Alheit, Eben Sadie, Adi Badenhorst, Duncan Savage et alia in the shimmering constellation of New Wave South African stars. BUT - and here's the rub - since Franco is still relatively unknown, the prices do not yet reflect how sensational the wines really are. So this is a perfect opportunity for Swigger's to bag a rare fine wine bargain!

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