In 2022, while visiting friend Phillipe Viet in Beaujolais, Ray was offered a special parcel of fruit from biodynamically grown 100 year old Cru Régnié vines. This is the result.
Grenache (60%) Morvedre & Syrah. Cool fermented in large open top wooden fermenters with wild yeast for 20 days. No maceration just gentle pigeage and hand plunging. Pressed off with pressings included, settled then transferred into 500L 2 year old French Oak puncheons for 11 months.
Hugo George is not often made but when it is, it’s an absolute delight. Savory notes of sour cherries, lavender, and plump, juicy Victoria Plumbs. The back palate has a woodfired, smokey finish with sweet spices and cured meat.
El Matador, being the slayer of the bull, is a powerful character with sanguine characteristics. The wine mirrors the muse, with great power, sublime structure and savouriness. Dark plum, sun dried prunes and black olives with hints of raspberry and dried rose petal. It has a ferrous aspect with a dense powerful core, gentle tannins and very long finish.
This B5B Red blend is a riot of crushed fruit aromas with an underlying savoury edge. Its backbone is Sagrantino with Syrah and Vermentino giving this wine a beautiful aromatic lift. Think light, crunchy and complex all rolled into one. It is simply delicious.
One of those great drinking Pinots, made to be light and bright but still hold onto fine tannin, giving complexity and sophistication to those who seek it. Juicy red cherry, pomegranate and orange rind.
"..Mineral with pure, black cherries, incense and floral notes Structured and savoury on the palate, this tightly wound wine feels, at the moment, as if it's carved out of stone."
The wine has notes of red satsuma plum interlaced with black tea, cardamom, sichuan pepper. Medium bodied with a lacey delicate tannin structure and significant length.
The best examples of Gamay entice with crunchy red and blue fruits, with aromatic characters reminiscent of forest bushes. This is our third Gamay wine produced from the vineyard at Lethbridge, we were very excited to make it and hope you discover some of the characteristics we described above, but mostly we hope you enjoy drinking it.
