Nomads Garden Chardonnay 2023 (12 bottles) Alpine Valleys, North East Victoria

by Vinsight

$330.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

The grapes for this wine arrive from one of the most passionate, salt of the earth growers we know; Brian “Bri” Llewis. His spectacular Greenacres Vineyard in Merriang South is deep in an isolated valley of the sprawling Alpine Valleys GI. It’s so cool up there that it’s not unusual for it to snow over the winter period.

This is of course the same vineyard we take our Greenacres Vineyard Alpine Valley Pinot Noir from, when some Chardonnay came out of a long term contract with a large corporate winemaker we did not hesitate to secure as much of this fruit as we could as everything Bri grows is of the absolute highest quality and his site is perfect for growing varieties suited to the cooler climes of an isolated mountain valley.

2023 was a very cool and mild growing season that required extra attention in the vineyard to navigate the heightened disease pressures. The pressure from rain eased in January and a long dry autumn ensued allowing us to let the fruit reach the optimum point where flavour, natural acidity and vitality are in balance, this is the key to making wines the way we do.

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About Nomads Garden

Nomads Garden is an experimental wine label born out of the pristine landscape and viticultural diversity of our home in the Alpine mountains of North East Victoria. All our wines are single vineyard and handmade with low intervention in the winery, this means wines we:

· Only use the naturally occurring wild yeast indigenous to the vineyard of origin.
· Never add acid to our wines.
· Minimal fining agents are added to our wines. (only the the natural clay product bentonite is used to stabilize our whites)

Instead we let the brilliant fruit we have access to from the five distinct recognized wine regions (King Valley, Alpine Valleys, Beechworth, Rutherglen & Glenrowan) that make up North East Victoria (Truly a nomadic winemakers dream garden) shine through. These are wines that naturally reflect the year the grapes were grown and the beguiling land of which they were conceived.

These wines are intentionally not labelled or marketed as Natural Wines although the ethos in which they are made is very similar, we believe the term “Natural” is far to ambiguous with no set guidelines dictating what exactly a natural wine is.

Instead we feel the term Low Intervention is a far better description of what we are doing with Nomads Garden, creating wines by hand with minimal additives and a simple winemaking process that is transparently labelled on the back of the bottle.

We expect these wines to stand up to conventionally made wines; low intervention to us is not an excuse for faulty or poor quality wine.

Vinsight

Vinsight is a Sydney based, fine wine distributor servicing the NSW and ACT wholesale wine markets. We hunt for intelligent, caring & talented winemakers. We find customers who value authenticity & quality. We simply bring them together. From our beginning in 2009 Vinsight has firmly established itself as a supplier of quality boutique brands to the NSW/ACT wine trade. Our primary focus is the on-premise and fine wine retail markets, although we service all channels. Vinsight is recognised for the quality and stability of our portfolio and the personal service we provide.

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