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Aphelion Pir Chenin Blanc 2025
APHCHB25-P-1EA
APHCHB26-P

Aphelion Pir Chenin Blanc 2025

McLaren Vale, Australia
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About this Wine

 
country Australia
region McLaren Vale
variety Other Whites
Style White (Crisp Fresh)
vintage 2025
closure Screwcap
Alcohol vol. 13.2
volume 750
Brands Aphelion

Tasting Notes

Palate

The palate is a textural delight with a great depth of flavour – time on ferment lees has provided an attractive creamy character to the wine. Use of Austrian and French oak provides a touch of astringency on the finish. A rounded and complete wine, crisp acidity cleans the finish and provides great length.

Vinification

The fruit was separated into two different ferments – one in tank, the other in a combination of one new Austrian oak puncheon and seasoned French oak barriques. The oak portion was fermented using wild yeasts and kept on ferment lees with minimal sulphur with weekly batonnage. The two portions were blended just prior to bottling.

Cellaring Potential

Ready to drink now but will continue evolving through to 2035.

Food Matching

A rich baked salmon dish with green herb sauce would complement the palate roundness of this wine.

Region Notes

The fruit is from 50-year-old vines in a single vineyard in Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale owned by the Brini family. This site is cooler than the rest of the Vale making it an ideal sub-region for white varietals so that they can retain more of their natural acidity.
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Reviews

  • Marcus Ellis
    1

    From the Brini vineyard, Blewitt Springs, off 50-year-old vines; even split between tank and barrel, with a new Austrian puncheon among older French barrels. There’s a pithy grip to this, an apple-skin burr, knitting into the lees-built texture of regular bâtonnage, with flavours of baked green apple and fresh pink Cripps, peach kernel, wild herbs, a ginger/galangal note, a brininess, some cinnamon and riverstone. Quietly complex and quite the pleasure to drink. Points: 94/100

    Halliday Wine Companion ∙ 26th Aug 2026

  • Campbell Mattinson
    1

    There’s a gravity to this wine. Not a lot, but enough, and it comes together with a general fruitiness, and a deal of texture too. We’re clearly in good territory. Apple juice, apple skins, nashi pears, salt, pepper, a gentle run of tonic water, metal and smoke. It’s very good. It will age. It feels structured and upstanding. 93+ Points: 93/100

    The Wine Front ∙ 22nd Aug 2026

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