Quealy Winemakers Feri Maris Pinot Grigio 2023 (6 Bottles) Mornington Peninsula
$230.00 GST Included
AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED
The grapes for Quealy’s top Grigio bottling grow on the home vineyard in Balnarring.
Established in 1982, it was one of the region’s first vineyards and is now certified organic and managed without irrigation. The Pinot Grigio was harvested by hand on 20th March, pressed as whole bunches and settled.
It was racked with partial solids to stainless steel (70%) and hogsheads (50% new). The must fermented with indigenous yeasts, and there was no addition of sulphur. The wine was left on lees without stirring.
Tom McCarthy and the Quealy team have been impressed by the increasing quality of Quealy’s home vineyard, which has now been organically farmed for almost a decade. Partial barrel fermentation and maturation have become part of the winemaking to help frame the intensity of flavour and texture they find in the fruit grown on the site.
The Feri Maris was racked before bottling on 1st July—nice and early to retain freshness and natural CO2 from the fermentation.
It’s a potent expression of Feri Maris in 2023, courtesy of mature, dry-grown vines, dramatically low yields and an even glide through the ripening season. This glitters in the glass with citrus, floral notes and a deep mineral core.
It drives through the palate with snappy acidity and grippy but finely laced structure, closing with a citrusy, salty tang.
Description
Quealy Winery
Exclusively grown on our winery vineyard, the grapes are picked in the first few days of March when the grapes are a hot pink colour and still rich with acid. Whole bunch pressed with a low yield per ton captures the delicacy; zero sulphur through the process of yeast and malolactic fermentation. Another month stirred on lees and then sulphur in June, more racking and then into bottle in July 2019.
Quealy Vineyard
We care for this vineyard with organic sprays and zero herbicide. It’s surrounded by bush and clearly a fertile ground for the biomass. The vineyard is crawling with insects; beetles, snails, moths, earwigs and we don’t want them all but we have learnt to live together. We like to hurry the ripeness so we harvest before the party starts; it’s where the vineyard dictates the style.
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