2023 Pee Wee Novello Nero d'Avola - sold out - new vintage coming in June
2023 Pee Wee Novello Nero d'Avola - sold out - new vintage coming in June
Nero d’Avola is a variety indigenous to Sicily. At sea level Sicily is climatically identical to McLaren Vale. It handles our warm, dry conditions beautifully and requires a fraction of the amount of water to get it to grow. Novello is an Italian style of wine between a Rosato and a dry-red (Rosso). Ours spends just enough time on skins to give it some personality and varietal characters.
Bone dry, and made in a novello style we like to drink this wine chilled while wearing a beret as it’s raspberries for days 😊
TASTES LIKE Liquid red-skin lollies, raspberries, cherry-cola. Tastes slightly sweet but has fermented bone dry.
DRINK WITH Margarita Pizza and a nudie swim
Vegan friendly
VINTAGE SUMMARY This growing season was cool and wet and long. Vintage started 3 to 4 weeks later than “usual”. Our first parcel of fruit was the Bastardo coming in on February 21st and our last was Nero d’Avola on the 23rd April. As vines avoided the real heat of summer, we didn’t have one day above 40c the long slow ripening period gave perfect conditions for gradual flavour development and excellent, lovely natural acidity.
2023 Vintage ticked all the boxes.
WINEMAKING 3 day skin contact time. Open fermented. Hand plunged twice a day. Wild fermentation with temperature kept to less than 25C. No added acid, enzymes, tannin or fining agents.
WINEMAKER : Andy Coppard
VINEYARD: Biodynamically certified. Hiltop Vineyard, Little Road Whites Valley. & Amadio Vineyard Adelaide Hills
WINEMAKER : Andy Coppard
VITICULTURALIST: Paxton Viticulture VINEYARD: Biodynamically certified. Hiltop Vineyard, Little Road Whites Valley.