Chenin Blanc Pairing

It's no secret that we love Chenin Blanc. It's difficult to pinpoint when we began this love affair with Chenin Blanc but Domaine Huet definitely plays a large part as well as Ken Forrester's Petit Chenin. I've blogged about it before: Ken Forrester's 2009 Petit Chenin and 2010 Domaine Huet Le Mont.
Chenin Blanc pairs so perfectly with fresh oysters and seafood and seafood is what naturally comes to mind when pairing white wines.
Recently, however, we had leftover pork ribs with a dry rub and two bottles of Chenin Blanc. One was our 2019 Chenin Blanc and the other was a 2010 Domaine Huet Le Mont. Since we enjoy food and wine pairings, we thought why not try it with the two Chenins. To our surprise, the wines went very well with the dry rub pork ribs. Our assessment to this pairing was that our Chenin has a good bit of acidity that cut through the pork ribs and made it an unlikely but delicious pairing!

Coincidentally, one of our customers who came back to bring her sister and purchase more wines, recounted that she and her husband paired our 2019 Chenin Blanc with dry rub pork ribs! She mentioned that although her husband is not a wine drinker, he enjoyed the Chenin with the ribs that he prepared!