Supernature, Pinot Gris 2021

Supernature is a new project from Ben and Anglea Jordaan, founder of the Noble Vice wine festival. The first wine is a vibrant skin contact Pinot Gris made by up-and-coming winemaker Natasha Williams. The grapes come from a vineyard in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley that Natasha has been working with for the past 5 years. The site is a south-facing slope at 200-250m above sea level, with decomposed granite soils. Pinot Gris 2021 is an awesome orange wine for those new to the style. The handpicked fruit ferments on skins for approximately 10 days with two punch downs each day to encourage extraction, which gives this wine it’s striking salmon hue. Bursting with notes of gooseberry with gorgeous citrussy aromatics and a gentle chalky texture, this is a superb wine to pair with asian cuisine.