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De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis SémillonDe Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Smillon 2020 Riverina, Australi Weinig Australische dessertwijnen hebben de status van De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Smillon 2020. Deze iconische zoete wijn werd in 1982 gecreerd door Darren De Bortoli en geldt ruim 40 jaar later nog altijd als een benchmark voor Australische botrytiswijnen. Dat maakt ook de stijlbenaming meteen relevant. Wat is botrytis? Dat is edele rotting, waarbij druiven door Botrytis cinerea
De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Sémillon 2020 Riverina, Australië
Weinig Australische dessertwijnen hebben de status van De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Sémillon 2020. Deze iconische zoete wijn werd in 1982 gecreëerd door Darren De Bortoli en geldt ruim 40 jaar later nog altijd als een benchmark voor Australische botrytiswijnen. Dat maakt ook de stijlbenaming meteen relevant. Wat is botrytis? Dat is edele rotting, waarbij druiven door Botrytis cinerea indrogen en zo extra concentratie, honingtoetsen en gelaagdheid opbouwen.
Wijngaarden en regio
De basis van deze wijn ligt in de Riverina, een warm wijngebied in New South Wales waar botrytis alleen in de juiste seizoenen echt groot kan worden.
- Ligging / Herkomst: Noble One 2020 komt uit de Riverina. Voor deze jaargang werd fruit gebruikt van een vaste botrytisleverancier én van het eigen estate vineyard van De Bortoli, beide met een lange historie in Botrytis Sémillon van hoog niveau.
- Wijngaard & Oogst: Een relatief droge winter, regen in het late voorjaar en daarna regen in januari, februari en begin maart zorgden voor de opbouw en doorbraak van botrytis in de wijngaarden. De oogst begon op 18 maart en was de 2e vroegste Noble One harvest ooit, wat veel zegt over het verloop van dit groeiseizoen.
- Herkomstkarakter: Bij Noble One draait de herkomst niet om koelte, maar om de precieze timing van vocht, schimmelontwikkeling en plukmoment. Juist die combinatie maakt botrytis in Riverina zo bepalend voor concentratie en stijl.
Vinificatie en rijping
De kelderaanpak is hier volledig gericht op het bewaren van concentratie, frisheid en balans in een uitgesproken zoete stijl.
- Oogst & Selectie: Het fruit wordt geoogst, gekneusd en blijft een nacht staan om nog meer smaak en zoetheid vrij te maken. Dat geeft de wijn extra intensiteit vanaf het allereerste begin van de vinificatie.
- Vergisting: Na het persen wordt het sap geklaard en in tank vergist. De vergisting wordt heel nauwkeurig gevolgd tot het juiste evenwicht tussen alcohol, zoetheid en zuren is bereikt, waarna ze wordt stopgezet om precies die rijke maar levendige stijl vast te houden.
- Rijping / Houtopvoeding: Daarna rijpt de wijn 12 maanden in Franse eiken barriques. Voor de 2020 blend werd gewerkt met 37% nieuw hout, 33% vaten van 1 en 2 jaar oud en 30% unoaked component, zodat er naast vanille en romigheid ook genoeg frisse fruitexpressie in de wijn blijft.
- Alcoholpercentage: Met 9,0% alcohol blijft Noble One duidelijk zoet en weelderig, maar nooit log. De stevige zurenstructuur geeft hem juist lengte en precisie.
Druivensamenstelling
Hier draait alles om 1 druif die in Australië een van zijn meest iconische zoete interpretaties heeft gekregen.
- Sémillon – Riverina: Sémillon vormt de volledige basis en geeft de wijn zijn combinatie van honing, citrus, steenfruit en lange, frisse spanning. In botrytisstijl levert dat hier een bijzonder gelaagd dessertwijnprofiel op.
Proefnotities en serveertips
Goudgeel in het glas, met een rijke neus en smaak van perzik, nectarine, kweepeer, citruszeste en honingfruit. In de mond is Noble One vol en fluweelzacht, met geïntegreerd vanillehout en een prachtige balans tussen zoetheid en frisse zuren. De afdronk is lang, weelderig en tegelijk opvallend precies.
- Serveertemperatuur: 9–11 °C werkt hier het mooist, omdat dit bereik de honingrijke concentratie, het steenfruit en de frisse zuren samen het best laat spreken.
- Gerechten: Blauwe kaas, gedroogd fruit, amandelkoekjes, gerookte eend en tempura van kabeljauw met gefermenteerde paddenstoelen sluiten hier prachtig op aan, omdat de wijn zowel zoetheid als spanning en hartige diepte in huis heeft.
Bekroningen
- Best Sweet White of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2024: Een van de sterkste mogelijke bevestigingen voor een Australische dessertwijn, en volledig passend bij de status van Noble One 2020.
- 2 trophies en 9 gold medals, Noble One 2020: Deze jaargang werd door De Bortoli zelf expliciet uitgelicht als een release die de reputatie van Noble One opnieuw bevestigt.
- 4,2 sterren uit 5400+ reivews, Vivino: Een uitstekende score die laat zien dat Noble One ook bij wijnliefhebbers breed gewaardeerd wordt.
Meer informatie over De Bortoli
De Bortoli is een familiebedrijf dat teruggaat tot 1928 en nog altijd wordt gedragen door de 3e generatie. Noble One ontstond in 1982 toen Darren De Bortoli, net terug van zijn opleiding in oenologie, bewust een grote Australische botrytiswijn wilde maken. Dat idee groeide uit tot een van de meest gelauwerde dessertwijnen uit Australië en gaf het huis internationaal extra gewicht.
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Powerful and Hard-Hitting
Format: Paperback
This book explores how racism and disability justice issues intersect and intertwine, particularly within the American church. Lamar Hardwick writes from his perspective as an autistic Black pastor, and his recent battles with cancer also inform his writing. He takes an incisive look at the ways that people sideline and make judgments about "abnormal" bodies, and he explores how different racist and ableist ideas developed in early American history, primarily related to enslaved Africans. Because I share Hardwick's interest in American history, I was already familiar with most of this information, but it will be new and eye-opening for many readers.
Hardwick clearly explains the historical connection between ableism and racism, showing how people justified slavery by arguing that Black people were intellectually inferior, were childlike, and should not have agency over their own lives. Hardwick explores both glaring and subtle implications of this ideology, and he makes a number of very excellent points. He is bold and doesn't mince words, and he explains complicated, abstract ideas in accessible terms. He also touches on a variety of side issues to his main thesis, such as desirability politics, body shame, and issues with grind culture.
Hardwick gives examples of how early American Christians contributed to pervasive cultural problems, and he also shares contemporary stories to show how problematic ideas cause harm in real life. His personal stories add a lot to the book, and I appreciate his honesty and vulnerability. I also appreciate how Hardwick uses Scripture throughout the book, especially when he is writing about disability theology. Some similar books focus primarily on personal experiences and secular social justice theories, with only loose Scriptural connections, but Hardwick bases his arguments in specific Bible passages and the big story of Scripture. I disagree with some of his interpretations, but found his arguments significantly more persuasive than ones I've seen before.
One confusing, weaker element of this book is that Hardwick begins using "ableism" as a catch-all term for any kind of hierarchy of human value. Even though different forms of discrimination can overlap in complex ways, Hardwick often uses the word "ableism" in cases where there isn't a direct reference to physical or mental abilities. Because he stretches this word's definition, readers who are new to this conversation may struggle to follow his arguments at times.
My other critique is that even though Hardwick is accurate and persuasive in his coverage of historical wrongs in the American church, he sometimes makes it sound like all of these issues started with American Christianity. Even though we can trace back particular expressions of racism and ableism to influential people like Cotton Mather, the root issues are part of the human condition. Many Christians throughout time have absorbed harmful ideas from their societies and expressed these assumptions in Christian language, but they weren't inventing these forms of oppression.
Also, even though people created specific racist beliefs to justify the institution of slavery, ableism has been an issue in all cultures since the beginning of time. Christianity began in a cultural context where it was normal and acceptable for parents to discard female and disabled infants to die in the elements, and early Christian advocacy is part of why that is so gut-wrenching and unthinkable to us now. Even though Hardwick's analysis is helpful, it's only part of the story. I think that he could have balanced it out better with more context, while still holding the same American historical figures accountable for their sins and failings.
"How Ableism Fuels Racism" covers a variety of issues in a thought-provoking, engaging way. I appreciate the author's historical analysis, thoughtful reflections, and personal stories, and I would recommend this book to people who are invested the topic. Also, even though some aspects of this book might be confusing for people who haven't read anything like this before, the author's accessible writing style, clear explanations, and personal stories can help engage readers who are new to the topic. Overall, I was impressed with this book and am interested in reading more from this author.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Amazing Book Every Church Leader Should Read
Format: Paperback
Great Book and worth reading
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Provocative Read!
Format: Audiobook
I found this book to be profound, provocative, and very different than any other books I have read on racism and ableism. I never understood how ableism is the catalyst for racism, and how disability compounds racism. Highly recommend especially for those who are well versed in social justice.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Destined to Be One of My Favorite Books of the Year
Format: Paperback
I will openly acknowledge that Lamar Hardwick, the lead pastor of Atlanta's Tri-Cities Church and a pastor with autism, wasn't on my disability theology radar and I wasn't sure what to expect from his upcoming release "How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church."
I was blown away.
With "How Ableism Fuels Racism," Hardwick proposes that ableism and the resulting disability discrimination are the root causes of racial bias and injustice in American culture and in the church. Weaving together a tapestry of historical records, biblical interpretation, and disability studies, Hardwick examines how ableism in America led to the creation of images, idols, and institutions that would ultimately fuel both disability and racial discrimination.
After engaging in this discussion, Hardwick calls the church into action to address the deeper issues of ableism and offers practical steps to help readers dismantle ableism and racism in both attitude and practice.
As an ordained minister and seminary graduate who is also a paraplegic and double amputee, I've long immersed myself in the world of disability theology and long believed that the church embraces the hierarchy of bodies about which Hardwick writes. "How Ableism Fuels Racism" served up a myriad of Aha! moments for me and times when long-held beliefs were finally communicated with clarity. Interestingly, Hardwick even clarified for me what had troubled me with another book I recently read around the issue of "deconstruction." I may have actually shouted out "Yes, that's it!"
I've long believed that being accommodated by a church is the ground floor step toward full inclusion. It's far from enough, yet for an institution that fought against the ADA it's often seen as the ultimate gift for those with disabilities. Instead, Hardwick argues that the church should be passionately pursuing those with disabilities and others outside the "typical" hierarchy of bodies."
I'm telling you. Brilliant stuff here. I can't stop thinking about it. Precise in its criticism yet also constructive and forward thinking, "How Ableism Fuels Racism" confronts the shameful and shame-filled underbelly of American Christianity and offers a broader and more inclusive vision of God, faith, and church life.
How much did I love this book? I'm already reading it again.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024
★★★★★ 5
great read for those in the church who want to learn more about equality
Format: Kindle
While this book focuses on ableism and racism, I learned a significant amount about how the church has perpetuated ableism over the years and how the founding fathers of our country used religion and ableism as the initial forms of a caste system. Black bodies were seen as inferior and therefore were able in their minds able to be enslaved. This book is a great read for those in the church who want to learn more about equality and how we as a community and church can do better about falling into the trap that we may be "better than." Lamar Hardwick quoted many different authors and theologians, including one who wrote a book about how Jesus was disabled as a result of the crucifixion. This book is great food for thought and I recommend for those who want to learn more about how they and the church view those seen as different.
"Racial slavery in the West began by using disability to make chattel slavery a matter of charity rather than a matter of equality. Defining Africans as mentally inferior and effectively disabled allowed for proslavery advocates to appeal to the Christian ethos of benevolence."
"The challenge is that beauty is an abstract concept. Our inability to define beauty without using a deficit model stands in contrast to our fundamental beliefs about how God created us. Our origin begins outside of us. An infinitely holy and wise God who creates with intention and intimacy placed us in the world. Acknowledging God's creative genius challenges us to believe that God does not create anything that is not beautiful in its own way."
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Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024