Nomads Garden Pinot Blanc 2023 (12 Bottles) North East Victoria

by Vinsight

$306.00 GST Included

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2021 Pinot Blanc – King Valley

Handmade – Basket Pressed – Wild Yeast Ferment – No Acid or Enzyme Added – Barrel Aged on Lees

Vineyard ~ Acacia Park, King Valley

Grower – Pat Murtagh

Sourced from a large well known and well run vineyard perched on the side of a mountain well up from the valley floor and thus cooler, vital for maintaining natural acidity. This vineyard predominantly grows better known more commercial varieties (heaps of Prosecco!). Back in 2017 we discovered Pat had planted a small amount of Pinot Blanc back in the vineyard after discovering the variety on a trip to Europe in the 90s. For the most part in the past the fruit has been blended away and not made into a single varietal wine. After making a small amount of Pinot Blanc from the vineyard as a one off release in 2017 it is now back by popular demand as a permanent fixture in our portfolio.

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 Pat the grower and ensuring the grapes were picked at exactly the right moment to ensure the natural pH and the flavours were just right.

Picked in the cool of the night and delivered immediately to our winery. 75% of the fruit was crushed and then gently whole bunch pressed in our wooden basket press and transferred to tank, the remaining 25% was crushed and allowed to sit on skins for 16 hours then basket pressed to the same tank.

Once the juice was in tank 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 to stay cool at approximately 17 degrees Celsius to retain aromatics. Once fermentation was complete the wine was transferred to oak to rest in barrel on its lees for 3 months to create texture. 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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