Nikau Farm Wines 'Tonimbuk' Granite 2023

Dane Johns has carved a formidable reputation making some of Australia's best natural wines. His hugely popular Momento Mori wines have a cult following and it's not hard to see why. The Nikau Farms wines are from Dane and Hannah's Gippsland vineyards.

This year the ‘Granite’ cuvée is comprised of Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Grigio and
Sauvignon Blanc from our Tonimbuk site. 47 year old vines on coarse, weathered granite soils always give the wines from this site a lean and very mineral driven nature. They always show an abundance of energy with such delicate and precise structure.

Co-Fermentation took place in stainless steel with whole bunch skin-contact for 48 hours. The wine was then pressed back into a single ceramic egg where it sat undisturbed for 14 months elevage. It was then bottled (without racking) directly from the vessel. This is a delicately orange wine with a refined and elegant nature to it. It has more tannin than the 2021, largely due to the Pinot Gris/Grigio element.

The time in tank on gross lees has given yet another layer of fine complexity to the wine.

As always... Wild ferment, no s02, no pumps, no additions, no oak. As pure a representation of site, place and time possible.