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Poppelvej

2021

‘Øst’

Riesling   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia
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About

Øst sounds like it could be the name of a character in Game of Thrones, a brutish man with a long beard, bearing a sword on his hip. In reality, it’s a 300-year-old family middle name on the Deichmann brothers’ mom’s side of the family. It means “East.” Suddenly, the name takes on a softer, gentler quality. Uffe and Jens knew they wanted to dedicate a wine to their grandmother, an avid Riesling drinker, but they wanted to do it in a way that honored their penchant for quirky winemaking. So, a skin contact Riesling it was. Despite the subtle tannin and high acidity, this wine remains wonderfully delicate.

The Riesling is hand harvested from the K1 vineyard in the Kuitpo Forrest, Adelaide Hills. It ferments naturally on the skins for 28 days (after gentle foot stomping and hand-plunging). It is then pressed directly into large format oak where the wine is handled oxidatively. It stayed on the lees for 12 months of aging. The wine was bottled without fining or filtering, and with a very small sulfur addition.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Riesling
  • Vineyard: K1 Kuitpo
  • Vine Age: 35-years-old
  • Soil Type: Ancient gravelly ironstone podzols (500-870 million years old)
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native — one-ton open-top fermenter (100% whole berry)
  • Skin Contact: 28 days
  • Aging: 12 months in large-format oak
  • Alcohol: 10%
  • pH: 3.22
  • Total Acidity: 6.7 g/L
  • Total SO2: 30 ppm
  • Total Production: 160 cases

Tasting Notes

Bright orange, tannic, grippy. Zingy acidity on the palate. This wine is funky and fun as hell.

Press & Reviews

The Wine Front

92

"Zesty, zingy and complex, layers of citrus, dried and fresh, peppery, piquant herbal characters, light, saline nuttiness too. Excellent sense of refreshment factor, tension and precision too. Fresh as. A very good orange wine."

- Mike Bennie

Wine Enthusiast

90

"A hazy amber hue, this skin contact Riesling is rich, wild and evocative, suggesting caramel apples and honeyed citrus, and underpinned by wild herbs, damp hay, wool and mineral nuances. The palate comes with a crunch of acidity and intensely raspy, skins-derived tannins that dominate. The fruit peeks through the cracks. This is a full throttle skinsy white that needs a buttery, cheesy dish alongside it."

- Christina Pickard

Producer


Poppelvej

Region


Adelaide Hills

Country


Australia

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