hanTV EPISODE CHAPTER INDEX:
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00:00 – FOUR insights from South Africa’s Top10 Sauvignons in 2024
03:31 – Who decides what “good wine” should taste like?
06:17 – Did wine us of a world class athlete?
07:38 – Where does the fruit come from?
08:33 – Tasting notes for the Inevitable Fumé Blanc 2022
10:29 – An intro to the Inevitable Wine Range
10:45 – More videos on how viticulture and oak barrels affect wine flavour
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How Wine robbed the world of a champ athlete
If you believe in the butterfly effect, then it is very possible that it was the 2006 vintage of the I Am One bottling by Amani that robbed the world of one of its legendary Javelin throwers!
Because winemaker Neville Lotz was, in fact, the South African Javelin champion in 2003 and he had this five year plan to be the Javelin champion at the Olympics in 2008, but Neville made, perhaps the terrible mistake, or perhaps the fortuitous act tasting that nectar of the gods and that single sampling triggered a metamorphosis in Neville that, as I said, would rob the world of a titan athlete… BUT it would also bestow upon the world a masterful winemaker, which is a good change.
Neville eventually trained under the cape wine master Rudolf Steenkamp, and he made his first vintage in 2019. Since then his rise has been fast, and by 2024, his inevitable range of wines have been served in a number of Michelin starred restaurants across Europe, and are also on the wine lists of some of South Africa’s top restaurants like FYN, Aubergine, Beyond and Cape town’s marble restaurant.
If you have yet to sign up for your Monthly HanDrinksSolo Wine Subscription then you’ll have to hunt this wine down in your own time. But until then, here are my tasting notes and some technical specs:
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Tasting notes:
👃🏼 A lot of greener fruit; hints of of lime zest, some kiwi fruit, but also oranges, and maybe a touch of nectarine. These are followed by gentle hints of butter toffee.
👄 A glorious combination of tightly coiled lime fruit and tart seville orange against some of that sweeter oak spice. The acid is super zingy, balanced out by a sense of creaminess on the palette.
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Technical Specs:
🔬 WO Stellenbosch. 100% Sauvignon blanc. Fruit is harvested from a very high-lying southern-facing block on the border between Devon Valley and Bottelary Hills.
