2020 Popplvej Only Shallow Contact Viognier
McLaren Vale, SA
The first orange wine from Poppelvej! Full-flavoured skin-contact Viognier from the Adelaide Hills.
$38.00
Out of Stock
About The Wine
We've been wondering when an orange wine from Poppelvej might pop up and here it is!
He didn't take a half swing at the wine style, either. This is a legit amber wine with some complexity underpinning it's golden, delicious character.
It's made from Viogneir that spent nine weeks on skins before being pressed off.
Viognier is a great variety for this wine style. The peach and apricot flavours move into gingery, spicy territory with some skin contact.
It's fleshy, fragrant and full-flavoured - it's a super sessionable version of a skin contact wine.
About Poppelvej
Poppelvej (pronounced 'Pop-ell-vee') is a pint-sized winery based in McLaren Vale started by young Danish sommelier-turned-winemaker, Uffe Deichmann with the help of his brother Jens.
The name Poppelvej translates to "the street of the poplar trees", a homage to the family home property of the same name.
Uffe now has a small, ramshackle winery dug into in the side of a hill in McLaren Vale. He produces tiny amounts of wine with a minimal intervention philosophy.
Low amounts of sulphur (but always some) are used, the ferments are all wild. Massive black concrete eggs and an array of oak vessels in varying sizes are used as fermenters. It's a small but love-filled operation he is running.
McLaren Vale, SA
From The Producer
Handpicked Viognier from Macclesfield in the Adelaide Hills & farmed without the use of systemic nor synthetic chemical inputs. Wild fermented on skins for 20 days and foot-stomped once daily, the wine remained on skins for a further 43 days before it was basket pressed to old oak to rest on full solids for 5 months, where battonage occurred fortnightly. Racked to stainless steel and bottled by hand. Unfined and unfiltered.
Blend : Viognier (100%)
ABV : 13.8%
Closure : Cork
Drink Until : 2023
McLaren Vale, SA
Critic Reviews
"Orangina without the carbonation! Tangy orange, almost like powdered cordial kind of feel, Berocca flavours, but not sweet.Orange juice, mandarin juice, some apricot, some dried herbs. Lovely dry, puckering feel. Gently savoury too. Minerally maybe? Lots of character. Juicy through mid palate. Lively and fresh, delightful, quietly complex." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
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