Nomads Garden Sauvignon Blanc (12 Bottles) North East Victoria

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2019 Sauvignon Blanc – King Valley

Handmade – Natural Wild Yeast Ferment – Barrel Aged on Lees No Acid and Enzymes Added – Cool Climate – No Acid Added – Barrel Aged on Lees

Vineyard – Eurangie Park, King Valley.

Grower – Richard Carson

Sourced from uppermost vineyard in the King Valley, the Eurangie Park Vineyard is approximately 6km further up the valley past the village of Cheshunt and is run by one of the best in the game, Richard Carson. Paul has had a relationship with Richard dating back some 20+ years, when we decided we wanted to make a premium low intervention, single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc, Richards name was top of the list. The cool site along with Richards expert hand in the vineyard allows the grapes to ripen slowly and develop complex flavours whilst retaining good natural acidity.

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 Richard 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 then given 7 hours on skins before gentle pressing straight to seasoned French oak barriques ranging between 4-7 years old. 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 stainless steel tanks. Natural wild yeast fermentation began within a couple of days, a slow cool ferment then progressed over 3 weeks with temperature not allowed to rise above 18c as to retain aromatics.

Once fermentation was complete the Sauvignon Blanc was allowed 10 months to rest in barrel on its lees (lees are the solids that drop and of the wine post fermentation) to create texture. No stirring was undertaken, the idea to build texture without overworking what we want to be a fresh yet complex wine. This is not your average Sauvignon Blanc. 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.

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