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Badenhorst, Secateurs Red Blend, 2024 so120523_bordeaux There’s a little toast fromFrom 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