Description
Garagiste is definitely one of Mornington Peninsula’s brightest rising stars! Named in honour of the ‘Garagiste’ – ‘garage’ vintners of Bordeaux who thumbed their nose at the rigid traditions of chateaux, winemaker Barney Flanders makes succulent, finely tuned and elegantly crafted cool-climate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris, highlighting the subtleties of the Peninsula’s different sub-regions with small batches of very limited and high quality wines. Fruit is sourced predominantly from highly prized Merricks Grove vineyard, Silverwood vineyard (Balnarring) and Hugh Robinson vineyard in Moorooduc. Since their first release in 2006 their wines are highly sought after, highly regarded and like their labels, very cool!
Cropped from a half-acre of the Merricks Grove vineyard, Terre de Feu (the Land of Fire) takes its name from a jagged pocket of red ferrosol which darts through this plot. Many years ago, Barney noticed that the vines were producing slightly smaller bunches, yielding wines of greater depth and concentration. In 2013 he decided to create this micro-cuvée. The fruit’s intensity and power allows him to 100% whole-bunch ferment every year, and Terre de Feu remains Garagiste’s only Pinot to be made this way.
This is arguably Barney Flander’s most iconic and divisive wine. He carefully sorts in the vineyard and winery to ensure the most pristine fruit. The wine then sees the whole-bunches and a splash of carbonic in the winery. This year, Barney gently foot-trod the grapes letting them ferment naturally on skins for nearly a month. Twenty-five percent went into new oak barrels, and it stayed on gross lees for 10 months. It was bottled unfined and unfiltered. The resulting wine is intensely floral and earthy showing rose, black tea, wet moss and smouldering pinecones. Simply, another complex and striking release under this label. Try it with Peking duck now but be advised that your patience will be amply rewarded.
95 points, Jane Faulkner, The Wine Companion “The whole bunches impart a strongly fragrant, earthy, sappy, twiggy and smoky character. It’s deep, complex and rich with dark cherries, warm tar, licorice, chinotto and wet iron. Fuller bodied, densely packed with tannins, cedary smoky oak and spices, yet plenty of refreshing acidity lifts and extends the finish. A wine for food and better with some mellow time in bottle.”
RRP $81 *Our Special Price $68.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine*
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