AA Badenhorst Secateurs Chenin Blanc

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AA Badenhorst
Secateurs Chenin Blanc
2021
Swartland

There are a few survival items I require in my fridge at all times or risk meltdown: cream cheese, bread, coffee, eggs, fresh herbs, peppermint tea and a bottle of Secateurs Chenin Blanc. Why, do you ask? Well, other than my clear breakfast food dependency and loose categorisation of fridge items, I am a firm believer in the importance, nay, the necessity of a go-to, look-at-that-it’s-already-chilled bottle of wine. 

The Secateurs Chenin Blanc is the friend you can take to any party and not have to babysit because you know they’ll have an entire corner belly laughing at some anecdote in the time it takes you to have a pee and cigarette break. With its nose of white flowers and drippy lazy afternoon sunshine, and an unmistakable tinned Koo peaches palate that gives over to a slight orange peel bitterness just before you thought the sweetness would get to you, the Secateurs Chenin Blanc is what running-towards-each-other-in-slow-motion-across-a-meadow montages were made for. 

Pair with: There are some wines that defy the art of pairing. Not because they don’t work with anything, but because they simply go with everything. Movie nights, beach weekends, Tuesdays, Stan Getz, chicken mayo toasties. Don’t try too hard. This wine’s got you.