Vintage
2020
ABV
13.5%
Wine Type
White
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
This medium bodied Pinot Gris is made from 100% Adelaide Hills grapes from our Woodlands Ridge Vineyard. A parcel of the fruit was skins fermented to add texture and colour to the wine. This has produced a wine with lovely, pear, red apple and spice characters
Accolades
Wine Enthusiast Feb 2021 89 points - Charming on the nose in superyouthful aromas of Comice and Anjou pears, this wine offers an equally engaging palate that tacks on sweet spice, fennel and parchment paper. Invitingly refreshing, with enough invigorating acidity to easily balance the medium-bodied palate, crowds far and wide should enjoy this. The harmonious structure, broad array of flavors and lingering finish suggest this should hold well for a few years.
Winemaker's Bio
Mark Kozned wine journey started in 1998 when he decided that he wanted a new life (that’s when Nova Vita (yes it means new life) was born) sitting with Joanne in a little French café in London. After being away from Australia for 7 years he gave up his international investment banking career to pursue his real passion – growing grapes and making wine (and drinking truckloads of it!).
Twenty years of grape growing and 10 vintages later at Tintara and Revenir and an on-and-off again Masters of Viticulture and Oenology at Adelaide University (yes its still only 80% complete) and he is still restless.
Wine making philosophy – let the grapes do the talking. This includes:
• sustainable practices in the vineyard are key - he keeps experimenting with organic practices but the terroir makes it difficult
• making wines that are balanced and elegant and readily smashable. He believes in getting back to basics and letting the grapes do the talking not winemaking gobbledygook – hopefully this produces wines that are fuller and scrumptious!
• where possible using natural yeast (wild ferment) and certainly no animal products.
• going on a natural wine tangent to have some more fun, edginess and risk with Project K
Wines he loves to make – his latest focus is on the natural field-blend wine project called Project K where a huge amount of risk with uncertain outcomes has produced amazing wines. His favourite is The SPN - a co-fermented Shiraz/Pinot field blend.
