Nomads Garden Fiano 2023 (12 Bottles) North East Victoria

by Vinsight

$306.00 GST Included

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2021 Fiano – King Valley

Handmade – Basket Pressed – Wild Yeast Ferment – No Acid or Enzyme Added – Barrel Aged on Lees (4 months) – 4.8g/L of Natural Residual Sugar

Vineyard ~ Mt Bellevue, King Valley

Grower – Chris Lindsay

Another vintage of Nomads Garden Fiano and another new Vineyard, this time from the super high altitude Mt Belvue Vineyard that sits 652m ASL on the Whitlands plateau. Needless to say this is super cool climate. As this is a cooler site the fruit needed to reach a higher level of ripeness before the total acidity of this naturally high acid variety came down to what we consider the optimal level, between 7.5-8.5 grams per litre. The views from this vineyard simply need to be seen to be believed, it’s a truly remarkable site.

As with all wines released under the Nomads Garden range input from us in the winery was kept to an absolute minimum. Instead careful attention was paid to working closely with Chris in the vineyard and ensuring the grapes were picked at exactly the right moment to ensure the natural pH and the flavours were just right.

Once in the winery the fruit was crushed and then gently pressed directly to seasoned French Oak (5-6 year old on average). Oak of this age will impart very little, if any oak characteristics instead we believe they are the best vessel for wines to ferment and age in. Oak is a natural product that allows the wines to breath and evolve with time, something not possible with tanks. Once the juice was in barrel and it was protected with CO2 until the natural yeast indigenous to vineyard took hold and begun the fermentation process, when using natural yeast we expect fermentation to begin with 3-5 days of crushing.

Ferments were temperature controlled in our barrel room at approximately 18 degrees Celsius to retain aromatics then allowed to warm at the end of ferment. We use only natural yeast indigenous to vineyard and in this case the yeast ran out of steam and the ferment finished with 4.9 grams per litre of natural residual sugar remaining. We were not worried by this at all as it looks fantastic in tandem with the pronounced acid line. Post fermentation the Fiano was allowed 3 months to rest on its lees (lees are the solids that drop and of the wine post fermentation) to create texture. Regular stirring of the lees was conducted. Lightly Filtered, Hand Bottled on Site, Vegan Friendly. Bottled June, 2021.

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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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