Borachio 'Pinot Noir Pinot Gris Chardonnay' Fleurieu 2021 Gifts

Borachio 'Pinot Noir Pinot Gris Chardonnay' Fleurieu 2021 GiftsThis pale red or dark ros is predominantly whole cluster Pinot Noir, foot stomped and pressed off after a few days into 300L barrels (giving it a LAnglore esque ruby hue and translucence). Theres also a touch of carbonic Pinot Noir from tank blended in, and direct pressed Pinot Gris done over whole clusters of Pinot Noir, also fermented aged in 300L barrels. Chardonnay is direct pressed and also barrel fermented. This wine is deeply Burgundian, with

on his 11 hectare total farm

in some cases) ferment via native yeast in used oak barrels and go into bottle without any intervention

Terada Honke is one of the rare “natural” sake breweries operating in Japan - they use estate grown rice

Drink This is both a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story

A delicious Dão blend of 50% Jaen (known as Mencía in Spain)

where the intensity of the vineyard work means fancy/classical wine makes a lot more sense

Blaufränkisch - it's a red cherry

is an excellent intro to Fricke's expressive but precise style

his drum set is right next to his steel tanks

as Ducroux just began working with it this vineyard in couple years ago

with subtle sage and coriander

with a touch of brambly black cherry