Badenhorst, Secateurs Red Blend, 2024 SO042126 with the deep ruby color

with the deep ruby color and spice the grape is known for

blood orange

south-facing slopes with clay-limestone soils produce wines of surprising depth: dark fruit

Enzo Brezza has made the wines since 1989

Badenhorst, Secateurs Red Blend, 2024 SO042126 with the deep ruby colorFrom Adi Badenhorst's old vine playground in South Africa's Swartland comes the red counterpart to his beloved Secateurs Chenin. This is a Rhone inspired blend built around Shiraz with the granite soil character of the Paardeberg foothills baked right in. Adi farms gnarly old bush vines and works with a light hand in the cellar, so the wine comes across as juicy, peppery, and honest rather than heavy or polished. It's the everyday red the Swartland