2022 Le Cimetiere Piccadilly Pinot Noir

Anton describes this wine as a "manurial smile, dark and mysterious." It's 100% Pinot Noir from the Cemetery Block at the base of the Piccadilly Valley, which is run by 6th generation farmers, Jenny and James Griggs. Prior to ferment, whole bunches were foot stomped and the macerated bunches were placed in large seasoned oak. The ferment was foot-plunged before being pressed to 800-litre clay eggs.= Anton van Klopper makes natural wine! By his definition, and consequently encouraging the stan...Read More...

Anton describes this wine as a "manurial smile, dark and mysterious." It's 100% Pinot Noir from the Cemetery Block at the base of the Piccadilly Valley, which is run by 6th generation farmers, Jenny and James Griggs. Prior to ferment, whole bunches were foot stomped and the macerated bunches were placed in large seasoned oak. The ferment was foot-plunged before being pressed to 800-litre clay eggs.=

Anton van Klopper makes natural wine! By his definition, and consequently encouraging the standard of many others inspired by him, natural wine must be made from organic / biodynamic grapes and naturally fermented. The winemaker must not fine, filter or add anything including sulphur. So this one’s for the zero/zero heads. Anton, along with his merry band of Basket Range bandits, like to make wines for health, to the betterment of humans and the environment. 

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