Nomads Garden Skin Contact White 2023 (12 Bottles) North East Victoria

by Vinsight

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2021 Skin Contact White Field Bland – King Valley

Handmade – Pinot Blanc, Savagnin, Pinot Gris Field Blend – 91 Days on Skins – Unfiltered – Unfined – Natural Ferment – Absolutely No Additions in the Winery – No Sulphur added in the Winery – Basket Pressed

Vineyard ~ Acacia Park, King Valley

Grower – Pat Murtagh

The second release of our Skin Contact White Field Blend, a new vineyard and new varieties this year. The initial 2019 release was made from fruit from the Battely Vineyard in Beechworth unfortunately it is only a very small planting and given the popularity of the initial release we decided to look for another vineyard with larger plantings of compatible varieties. After much deliberation we decided that the Acacia Park was the most exciting prospect with plantings of Pinot Blanc, Savagnin and Pinot Gris. These varieties all reach ripeness at a similar time so work well as ours is a true field blend, picked on the same day and fermented together. Pinot Blanc (50%) brings the clean aromatics, Savagnin (40%) the acidity and mid palate weight while the Pinot Gris (10%) brings its overt aromatics and a slightly pink hue to the wine when in glass and exposed to oxygen.

The grapes were crushed and destemmed and sent to 2 stainless steel open fermenters with an equal proportional blend in each. They were covered with a protective layer of CO2 until wild fermentation commenced after about 4 days. The ferments were kept cool and pumped over twice daily. Once the fermentation was complete the tank was locked down and the wine remained unsulphured on skins for some 91 days. The juice was pumped away from the skins which were lightly basket pressed. No SO2 additions were made this year in the winery. This release has a noticeably more orange appearance than the 2019 release as it picked slightly riper, pressings were included and no Sulphur was added in the winery. This is as natural as it gets! 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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