2017 Clay Pot Pandora's Amphora
2017 Clay Pot Pandora's Amphora

2017 Clay Pot Pandora's Amphora

Highly Rated
Billy Button |Alpine Valleys |Vermentino
A unique blend of aromatic white varieties that sees extended skin contact in clay amphora. A one of a kind from Jo Marsh and Glenn James.
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$40.00
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Description

Pandora's Amphora is a skin contact white wine with the kitchen sink thrown at it by the winemaking team, Jo Marsh and Glenn James.

The fruit comes from a series of vineyards across the Alpine Valleys. It's a blend of Ferraro Vineyard Vermentino, bringing the acid and drive of the blend, and Greenacres Vineyard Fiano, bringing the body-ody-ody and palate weight.

The fruit sits quietly on skins for around 200 days inside Glenn's old amphora before being pressed, then left on lees for another six months. The finished wine is a force to be reckoned with.

If you enjoy the twists and turns of a complex amber wine, then walk this way and see what's inside this Pandora's Box.

Two white grape varieties - Vermentino and Fiano were hand harvested on the same day and then fermented as one, along with their skins and seeds in a single terracotta ‘Amphora’. In Greek mythology Pandora was the first human female created by Hephaestus by order of Zeus . Her name means “all gifted” as all the Gods of Olympia bestowed all manner of gifts upon her (good and not so good). She was created from the clay of the earth just as are our Amphora is.

Fermentation occurs using only the ‘indigenous’ yeast from the vineyard’s own terroir. Once fermentation is complete Pandora is then sealed up and her precious contents matured on the skins and seeds for around 200 days. All the flavours and many other grape derived compounds produced by the vines each season in the presence of fermentation lees (yeast and malolactic bacteria) are slowly extracted and transformed during this period to produce an aromatic, complex and textured white wine. Pandora is then gently basket pressed and it is only at this point that the wine has a small addition of sulphur dioxide to preserve all that has been captured. The wine is then matured on light yeast lees for six months.

95 Points - "Equal split of vermentino and fiano from the Alpine Valleys. Wild yeast fermentation, sealed in a single clay amphora on skins for 300 days. Basket-pressed with SO2 to preserve flavour and freshness, and settled for another 6 months on light lees then racked and bottled without filtering or fining. The result is a tremendous wine. Pale rose-gold-straw hue; wafts of wild flowers, lemon honey, lemon barley and savoury spices. While it has texture and beautiful phenolics, natural acidity keep this reined-in." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

Billy Button

Billy Button is the charming Alpine Valleys based project of ubertalented winemaker Jo Marsh, now helped by her winemaker husband Glenn James and young winemaker Alex Phillips.

Billy Button focuses primarily on producing small batches of alternative varieties from good local growers in their small patch of Victoria. The team explores varieties that are rarely seen in the Australian landscape - you can find anything from Schioppettino to Verduzzo in this eclectic range.

Jo's gentle touch in the winery makes for beautifully balanced wines that show great texture and vibrancy. The Billy Button range is a little gem of North East Victoria. It's one of the more unique wine ranges in the country and the perfect place to begin your exploration of alternative varieties.

Winemakers Glenn James, Jo Marsh & Alex Phillips Billy Button

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