Milan Nestarec Podfuck
Regular price $44.00
Winemaker: Milan Nestarec
Appellation: Moravia, Czech Republic
Grape Varieties: Pinot Noir (70%), Pinot Gris (15 %) and Blaufrankisch (15 %)
This wine has undergone an interesting journey – originally a heavy-macerated Pinot Gris, Milan started to shorten the skin-contact time and add some red grapes to the blend, until, in 2018, the wine “switched sides” completely and became red, with only ~20% of PG in the blend. “The full cheating circle, you might say; but I actually see it as a continuity of this wine’s story, a story of searching for elegance despite all my imperfections. Nestarec wabi-sabi. And I can’t be happier with it – not another macerated PG that the world already has a lot of, but a unique red-white blend that wonderfully mirrors our Bílovice loess,” as Milan says.
Vineyards: the BF comes from rich clay/loess plot called Otáhal, PG & PN from Zadní Hora which is pure loess.
Making of: The grapes are hand-harvested together, destemmed, gently stomped, and macerated on skins. Spontaneous co-fermentation with indigenous yeast fr 25 days in open-top vats, with only free-run juice aged in bigger old barrels of 225 and 600 liters, where it then lays undisturbed for ~2 years on its fine lees. No fining or filtration, with cca 5ppm of sulfur at bottling.
Personality: the fiery spice of Blaufrankisch with a fine lift and noble touch of the Pinots – a red that’s highly drinkable all while offering serious layers for thought thay you’ll love to browse through for hours. Milan says that this was the first red he felt happy enough with to bottle it as a “White Label”, ie. his top-shelf wines, and we wholeheartedly agree.