2022 Sabi Wabi Syrah Nouveau

WINEMAKER: Peta Kotz
REGION: Hunter Valley, NSW
VARIETAL: Syrah
VITICULTURE: Certified Organic

Sourced from the Ablington Vineyard Estate in Pokolbin, certified organic & planted in 1996 on reducing iron clay soils. 100% Syrah was handpicked & remained as 100% wholebunch seeing carbonic maceration for 10 days, drained and basket pressed to stainless steel. Primary fermentation & natural malolactic conversion completed in stainless where the resulting wine remained for 3 months prior to bottling. Unfined, unfiltered & minimal SO2 added at bottling.

Awarded 'Winemaker's Choice' at the 2022 Young Gun of Wine Awards, Peta Kotz’s Sabi Wabi is her homage to reworking the traditions of the Hunter, of searching for “beauty amongst imperfection”. Semillon is the foundation of the brand she founded in 2019 while working as assistant winemaker for biodynamic Hunter Valley winery Krinklewood, the same year she worked vintage at Le Grappin in Beaune & in 2021, Kotz took a role as assistant winemaker at M&J Becker Wines.

“I am Hunter Valley born and bred, and I am proud to be surrounded by such rich history and tradition of wine in the Valley, but there is a new wave of like-minded people here doing different things, and I am stoked to be a part of it.”