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

$328.00 GST Included

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

Single Vineyard – Greenacres Vineyard, Alip Valley

Grower – Brian “Bri” Llewis

Sourced from one of the most passionate salt of the earth growers we know in Brian “Bri” Llewis from his spectacular Greenacres Vineyard in Merriang South. This vineyard is deep in an isolated valley of the sprawling Alpine Valleys GI and such a cool site it is not unusual for it to snow there a couple of times over the winter period.

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

Unlike many Pinot vineyards in the North East this is a Vineyard dedicated to growing fruit for table wine not sparkling base, this means it is cropped at much lower levels.

Handpicked and sorted in the vineyard at daybreak with a baume of 12.6, 2021 was a very cool and mild growing season and the flavors developed early allowing us to pick at a nice fresh baume as to retain natural acidity and vitality. Unfortunately yields in this vineyard were down about 40% in 2021, a cruel blow after Bri lost his entire crop in 2020 to smoke taint, it has also meant that we have just a tick over 300 dozen this year, less than usual.

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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.

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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.