2025

Chenin Blanc

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From our Breakneck Creek vineyard, on the eastern escarpment of McLaren Vale, tucked into the foothills and with stunning views of the Gulf St. Vincent and Mount Lofty ranges this is a brand new wine for Hither & Yon.
Apple and guava juice, salted limes, ginger, beeswax, crunchy texture. Crisp and fleshy mouthfeel with good fruity concentration, crisp minerality, framed with that brine and chalk edge we love in our white wines, and true of place.

Reviews of the 2025 Chenin Blanc:

90 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, April 2026:
I remember when McLaren Vale chenin blanc was a byword for cheapy, supermarket-kinda wines of quasi-sweetness and simplicity. A few degrees off cask wine, perhaps. Now, chenin has a currency, and this leans into it. Medium weight, or just under that, saline minerality distinct in the wine, green pear, tonic water, lemon curd and lime pickle going on. Yes thanks. It feels seaside white wine territory and then delivers a kind of fanciness in that same statement, a touch of unexpected complexity, per se. It’s so enjoyable. Refreshing, fun, interesting. A good matrix of things right here.

91 points, Campbell Mattinson, April 2026:
This is an attractive white wine. It tastes of lemon barley and pears, nectarine and woodsmoke, with a sweet-savoury nuttiness lingering about the edges. It’s medium in weight and refreshing, though it feels as though it will build more flesh with a bit more time in the bottle. All positives here.

Jacob Barter (Noori) for the Summer (2025-2026) edition of Fleurieu Living Magazine:
Chenin gets cast here as the oyster and sushi whisperer. It's bright and mineral, the acid is high, but there's texture and weight too, with an edge that takes us straight to shellfish, caviar and sashimi. Think Sake energy. The nose has rich fruit of course but there's more to it, ginger and beeswax, rice bran and macadamia. Perfect with oysters, a deconstructed smoked salmon bagel situation (cream cheese, dill, capers) or Ahi poke loaded with sesame, soy and tuna. It's the one you drink at a sushi train when the plates are piling up dangerously fast.

89 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, December 2025:
From the Breakneck Creek vineyard off vines grafted in '23. Whole-bunch pressed, then a long cold ferment in tank, with 20% in old oak. The bottle is lightweight and recycled. That’s a good thing. For the environment, and there’s more left in the bottle than it feels. A win-win. Waxy apples, lemon barley water, samphire, ozone and a little nuttiness. It flexes on the mid-palate, though is lighter in concentration. Clean acidity wraps things up neatly.