First I’ll say this is one of the wife’s favourites. Why? well it has aromas of topical fruit and oak and adds a honey flavour when tasting. This is made from old, 40 year old vines and is a reasonably complex wine. For me I feel that the oak is a little over powering and that Chenin is best left out of oak and allow its natural flavours to come out, the 2017 vintage got a silver medal at the 2018 Decanter World Wine Awards. At £12 a bottle its reasonable value and it keeps the wife happy, so a good wine.

The Bernard series – old vine Chenin Blanc