Joe’s Featured Wine: Radley & Finch Alley Pack Chenin Blanc, Western Cape, South Africa 2018

$12.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR)

The majority of the grapes come from the Agter Paarl and Swartland regions.

Lemon citrus and stone fruit with hints of spice.

The name Radley & Finch was inspired by the characters Boo Radley and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird with Robert Duvall as Boo Radley and Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

Radley & Finch is a range of single-grape wines made by South African winemakers Thinus Krüger and Pascal Schildt.  Krüger has almost twenty years of winemaking experience in South Africa.  Schildt has about the same amount of experience with training in France as well.  Schildt is now an importer of his own company, Pascal Schildt Selections and he splits his time between Avignon, France and Newport, Rhode Island.  He manages the operation with his wife, Camille.