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Poppelvej

2021

‘Lille’

Teroldego   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia

About

The story behind this wine is a touching one. Lille, which means ‘little’ in Danish, is dedicated to Uffe and Jens’ nephew who got brain cancer at the age of 3 months. Thankfully, the little guy is surviving, but at the time this wine was made, they didn’t know if he would make it. This wine is a testament to what the powers of modern-day medicine and the love of a family can do.

The grapes were harvested by hand from the K1 Kuitpo vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. They fermented with native yeasts in a one-ton open-top fermenter (100% whole berry) for two days on the skins before being pressed to barrel where it finished fermenting with an ever so subtle residual sugar of 4 g/L. The wine then spent 10 months in neutral barriques before being bottled without fining, filtering, or sulfur.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Teroldego
  • Vineyard: K1 Kuitpo
  • Vine Age: 30-years-old
  • Soil Type: Ancient gravelly ironstone podsols between 500 and 870 million years old
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native — one-ton open-top fermenters (100% whole berry) for 2 days then pressed to barrel and finished fermenting in barrel
  • Skin Contact: 2 days
  • Aging: 10 months in neutral barriques
  • Alcohol: 13.5%
  • Residual Sugar: 4 g/L
  • pH: 3.7
  • Total Acidity: 5.92 g/L
  • Total SO2: 0 ppm
  • Total Production: 167 cases

Tasting Notes

A lighter Teroldego than most styles of this Northern Italian grape. Flavors of blackberries, sour cranberry, and pomegranate dominate on the palate, backed by an herbaceous freshness. A wine of verve, like the energy of a child, but with depth and structure behind it.

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