Nomads Garden Syrah 2019 (6 Bottles) North East Victoria

$189.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

A new addition to our range. This wine came about with the opportunity to lease a neglected vineyard just up the road from our farm and vineyards in Eldorado, 15 minutes by tractor to be precise.

The vineyard is comprised of 5 different Shiraz clones, Durif along with small plantings of Viogner and Marsanne for co fermentation.

This wine is made exclusively from the “Bests” clone of Shiraz planted on a boney ridge of hill to very poor soils composed of a red sandy loam with slate and ironstone fragments present. When we took over the vineyard in mid 2017 it was in need of some drastic viticulture , so much so that we had to think twice about whether we wanted to take on such a project.

However Pauls optimism shone through and the rest is history.

Once in the winery the grapes were 100% destemmed but not crushed. The ferment was only plunged lightly once a day and gently basket pressed straight to oak after 14 days on skins.

Matured on lees for 10 months in French Oak Hogsheads with an average age of 5 years. The soil profile and its propensity to ripen rapidly combined with our intention to produce a Syrah style meant we picked early to ensure a wine of tension and vitality.

This Syrah shows spice and pepper on the nose which carries through on the medium bodied palate loaded with red and blue fruits, right in line with the style outcome we so desired. 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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