A bit more press

Dr. Matthew Horkey and Charine Tan were in Italy recently and went along to the Polenzo Tasting in Piemonte. They have highlighted just 13 wines for special mention. One from good friends at De Marie in Barbaresco https://demarie.com/?lang=en and a Piemonte Barbera D.O.P with a rather lovely label from Vanessa Stone http://www.vanessastoneartist.com/

The full article can be found here: https://exoticwinetravel.com/glimpse-world-wine-merchant/

To quote them about The English winemaker Barbera:

” This wine is made with 25% whole cluster fermentation and indigenous yeasts. No additional sulfur is added. There are notes of stems, ripe red fruit, and pepper. This is a hardcore natural wine with gorgeous fruit. Score: 90/100

Vintage 2019: Start your engines!

And we’re off!

Beautiful Moscato grapes are in from the vineyard and fermentation is off and away. We selected a portion of the cleanest fruit, well it was all clean to be fair, to use for the whole bunch element and the rest went in de-stemmed. Started off smelling like really verdant grape juice but by the next morning it is was Acacia honey and stem ginger. Amazing stuff.

The rest of the crop is a little tardy this year so hanging fire on the Barbera and Field Blend for a minute or two yet.