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NOTES
A new vineyard in an ancient place with a powerful philosophy entwining them.... Situated below the Mount Barker summit in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Ngeringa is tended by the overlooking mystique of the rocks that are the Mount Barker and the traditional lores that surround them. Nourished through the simplicity of biodynamic farming practices, we believe Ngeringa carries an energy which identifies its individuality and sense of place.
Erinn and Janet’s approach to both the growing and the making of the wine is purposely traditional doing much in the vineyard by hand and being as least interventionist in the winemaking as possible. They aim to create wines of a traditional style with elegance and structure. Their minimalist approach favours hand harvest and small batch winemaking, only wild fermentation and the use of minimal new (French) oak.
TASTING NOTES
An earthy, aromatic and persistently textured Pinot. Notes of freshly turned healthy soil, morello cherry and dried wild herbs of comfrey and lavender. On the palate, forest fruits, bay leaf and the vitality of marjoram and thyme. Earthy, savoury and long.
PAST REVIEWS
Wood-smoky, sappy, bright and deceptively well structured. One of those wines - like a mature nebbiolo- where the tannin seems just that little more positive every time you taste of it. Turkish delight, autumn leaves and a long sense of dryness through the finish. Quite exquisitely put together. Not an overly powerful wine but a lovely one.
Rated : 93 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Winefront June 3rd, 2009
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