Nomads Garden Pinot Meunier 2022 (12 Bottles) North East Victoria

by Vinsight

$328.00 GST Included

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2021 Pinot Meunier – King Valley

Handmade – Hand Picked & Sorted – Hand Plunged – Partial Carbonic Maceration in Barrel – Basket Pressed – No Acid or Enzymes Added – Natural Wild Yeast Ferment – Barrel Aged on Lees – Unfined

Single Vineyard – Evans Vineyard, King Valley

Grower – Dan Ebert

Sourced from the Evans vineyard located in Myrrhee, a picturesque tributary valley of the main King River system. The vineyard was originally planted in the 1990’s by visionary winemaker Peter Read who realized that the climate and soils were ideal for growing then un-heralded varieties from cool regions of the world. Today the Vineyard is owned by Peter and Suzanne Evans and managed by Dan. In 2019 the opportunity to take some homeless Pinot Meunier arose, a product of the “Prosecco Boom”, we jumped at the opportunity and the subsequent experimental wine was such a hit we have decided to add it to our permanent stable of wines.

This is our second release of Pinot Meunier under the Nomads Garden label and made much the same way as the initial release in 2019 although the volume has increased to around 6.5T. The fruit was handpicked and carefully sorted in the vineyard before arriving at the winery where it was chilled for 24 hours prior to processing. The fruit was divided into 3 separate ferments:

Ferment 1 – 2 tonnes – 90% of the fruit was gently destemmed but not crushed so as to preserve as many whole berries as possible. The remaining 10% was sandwiched in the middle of the ferment as whole bunches. 48 hour cold soak. Gently hand plunged once daily. Ferment was allowed to rise to 28c where it was held, 18 days on skins.

Ferment 2 – 3 tonnes – 100% of the fruit was gently destemmed but not crushed so as to preserve as many whole berries as possible. 72 hour cold soak. Ferment allowed to rise to 30c and held. Gently hand plunged once daily. 10 days on skins.

Ferment 3 – 1 tonne – 100% whole bunch. Whole bunches were hand packed into 3 of our specially made puncheon fermentors and generous scoop of dry ice was added to each then they were sealed with one way gas valves and left for 12 days. When we opened them we were instantly hit with a wave of lifted aromatics. Each puncheon was hand plunged to break up the bunches and release the remaining sugar. 20 days on skins.

Basket pressed to 5-6 year old French Oak Barriques and Puncheons for 7 months maturation on full gross lees. All three components of this wine work harmoniously together to create a delicate, fine and very pretty Pinot Meunier. A variety we believe has great potential in North East Victoria to produce very affable table wines, especially as the climate continues to warm. Lightly filtered then hand bottled at our winery. Vegan Friendly

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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.