An amber, slightly more red than white. Hand-picked grapes from our old pinot gris vineyard. Part whole cluster fermentation, two months of skin contact.
PINOT GRIS
TASTING NOTES
Reddish gold. Smells of sumac and rooibos. Wild, complex, rose petals and smoky paprika. Everything but fruit. The palate, just as souk-suused as the nose, seems to glow, translucent. Deeply earthy. A very, very exciting wine.
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com
VINIFICATION
Handpicked into 10 kg cases. Half grapes stay not destemmed in clusters, the other half is gently destemmed. Fermented separated under controlled temperature in oak vats with wild yeast for 2 months of skin contact. No pigeage or remontage of grapes with stems while destemmed berries are carefully sunk to the bottom. Separately pressed and joined to age in 500l oak barrels on fine less for 22 months. No finning nor filtration.
| TERROIR | Kramarovci, Goričko, Slovenia |
| SOIL | basalt tuff, phyllite slate, calcareous sandy marl, residual marine sediments |
| ELEVATION | 320m |
| VARIETY | Pinot Gris |
| VINE AGE | 31 years at the time of harvest |
| FARMING | organic |
| YIELD | 20hl/ha |
| BOTTLING | November 2019, no filtration or finning |
| ANALYSIS | alcohol 13%vol., acidity 5,4g/l, sugar 2,0g/l |
