AA Badenhorst

Secateurs Chenin Blanc

Name: Secateurs Rosé
Brand: AA Badenhorst
Price: 115 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Chenin Blanc from Swartland, South Africa

R115

Bottle size:

750 ml

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Delivery is within 1–2 business days to main centres and 3–4 business days to outlying areas.

Fulfilled by

Norman Goodfellows and shipped from the following warehouse(s):

CPT · JHB: 60+DBN: 53

Aromas of flint, honey, orange blossom, and white stone fruit. Exceptional texture and palate weight with concentrated flavor profile.

Flint

Honey

Orange Blossom

Stone Fruit

All grapes are hand harvested and chilled overnight before processing. They are whole-bunch pressed and the juice from each day’s pick is added to the fermenting tanks over a 12-day harvest period. Fermentation is spontaneous using native yeasts, with approximately a quarter of the wine fermented in seasoned casks and large foudres. The wine is matured for ten months on its gross lees with occasional stirring, adding texture and complexity before bottling.

The Chenin Blanc grapes are sourced from the Kalmoesfontein and Jakkalsfontein farms, located on the northern slopes of the Paardeberg Mountain in the Swartland region. The vineyards consist of bush-trained vines planted in the 1960s and 1970s, rooted in soils of decomposed granite, clay and weathered shale. The combination of old vine material, unirrigated farming and the Paardeberg’s granite-based terroir contributes to the wine’s concentration and minerality.

AA Badenhorst

AA Badenhorst Family Wines are grown, made and matured on Kalmoesfontein farm in the Swartland appellation of South Africa. 28ha of old bushvines grow in the Siebritskloof part of the Paardeberg mountain. The property is owned by the baie dynamic and good looking cousins Hein and Adi Badenhorst. They are originally from Constantia. Their grandfather was the farm manager of Groot Constantia for 46 years. Their fathers were born there and farmed together in Constantia, during the days when people still ate fresh vegetables and Hanepoot grapes, drank Cinsault and there were a lot less traffic lights and hippies still had a presence. Together these two have restored a neglected cellar on the farm that was last used in the 1930′s to make natural wines in the traditional manner.