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Brash Higgins CHN Chenin Blanc 2019
£171.76
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6 bottle(s) at £28.63 per bottle.
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ZBK730400-19
Brash Higgins CHN Chenin Blanc 2019
- Grape Chenin Blanc
- Country Australia
- Region McLaren Vale
- ABV 12.5%
- Producer Brash Higgins
- Case size 6 / 75cl
- ‘A pale straw in hue, the wine is heady with Chenin perfume of honey, straw, celery, real lemonade, and water chestnut. Soft entry with trim acidity, the wine tightens as it flows across the tongue revealing a lick of saline and oyster shell. Good natural acidity with a delicate chalky, lemon pucker and notes of licorice on the finish that pulls you back for another look.’
Brash Higgins is the alias of Brad Hickey, a Chicago native whose wanderlust took him around the world, developing a love of wine and food on the way. On returning to the United States he ended up in New York where following a stint as a food writer, he began crafting wine lists, eventually becoming the wine director for David Bouley’s Michelin-starred empire. Having spent years talking about and selling wine, the next step in the journey was to make it. This led him to leave the Big Apple to work a vintage in McLaren Vale where he was given his nickname by the locals, in honor of his larger-than-life personality and big city ways. It was here that the wanderer finally settled, marrying local vigneron Nicole Thorpe, with whom he developed his eponymous label using grapes grown on their own organic Omensetter Vineyard as well as fruit sourced from like-minded growers.
Brad’s lack of formal training has become an advantage, helping him to craft a range of wines that allow his experimental nature and pure instinct for flavor to shine through. Hickey’s love of travel is also reflected in the labels, with the abbreviated grape names mimicking the international airport codes which undoubtedly litter his well-traveled suitcases.
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