2025 Van Loggerenberg Trust Your Gut Chenin

The 2025 Trust Your Gut is pure Chenin Blanc from Piekenierskloof, Paardeberg and Polkadraai that sees 20% aged in concrete and 80% in 500-litre French oak. It has a gorgeous nose with yellow plum, lanolin and light candied orange peel scents that blossom in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with a slightly viscous opening, more about texture than obvious fruit, a little peppery with touches of green olive on the finish. Superb. 93 points

`I hope my kids get to see a vintage like this,` says Lukas van Loggerenberg, who has made some of his greatest-ever wines in 2025. This superb Chenin contains equal components from the Paardeberg and Piekenierskloof, with a 20% addition from the Polkadraai Hills, showing saffron and wet stone aromas, good texture from 80% malolactic and flavours of lime and yellow apple. 94 points