FARMentation When Italian Riesling Falls in Love with Pinot Noir 2023
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Regular price
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FARMentation "When Italian Riesling Falls in Love with Pinot Noir" 2023
A co-fermented white-and-red cuvee from a rural winemaking collective at 2,000+ metres in Yunnan's Hengduan Mountains — proof that China's most interesting wine scene might be its most obscure one.
Grape varietal & region: Italian Riesling (also known as Welschriesling, a variety with a long, overlooked history in China) co-fermented with Pinot Noir, grown by FARMentation in the Hengduan Mountains of Yunnan, at elevations between 2,000 and 3,000 metres. This is part of FARMentation's "Renaissance" line, built around reviving grape varieties that have quietly grown in China for decades without much attention — Italian Riesling and Black Muscat among them — alongside a separate line of Chardonnay and Syrah from higher-profile sites in Deqin. The altitude does a lot of the work here: intense UV, huge diurnal swings of 20 degrees C or more, slow ripening and thick skins, all pushing toward concentration rather than softness.
Taste profile: A wine that splits the difference between orange and light red, with the textured grip of skin-contact white and the brightness of high-altitude Pinot Noir — savoury and a little wild at the edges, built for curiosity as much as for pairing.
Winemaking process: Italian Riesling skins were soaked in Pinot Noir's blanc de noir juice. Co-fermentation of white and red grapes together — an old-world technique (field blends, Portuguese vinho verde, some Austrian and German field wines) applied here to two grapes with no obvious business growing side by side, at extreme altitude, by winemakers explicitly working under the banner "everything can be fermented."
Winemaker: FARMentation is a collective project rather than a single named winemaker's estate — a group of winemakers, per their own description, engaged in a pastoral practice, rethinking the relationship between people, land and food. Based in rural Yunnan, they split their output between cider and perry, the Renaissance line of revived indigenous varieties, and a more conventional "Terroir" line of international varieties from named vineyard sites — this wine sits at the experimental heart of the project.
Country
China
Region
Yunnan
Maker
FARMentation
Style
Aromatic & Spiced Orange
Winery Practices
Natural Winemaking
Key Techniques Used
Extended Maceration
Maturation Medium
Amphora (Quevri)
Primary Taste
Citrus Fruit, Floral, and Red Fruit
Secondary Taste
Sweet Spice
Acidity
Medium +
Dryness
Dry
Food Pairing
Chicken & Turkey
Key Highlights
Winery
Winery
FARMentation
Rural winemaking collective in Yunnan, China, led by Yuchen Luo. Ferments indigenous and international varieties at altitude in the Hengduan Mountains; Renaissance line revives overlooked Chinese grapes like Italian Riesling.
Classification
Classification
Experimental Wines
These wines may not represent their "sense of place", but rather showcase the winemaker's style & creativity. While not classified, this does not mean that they aren't as good - they can be fantastic, but made in the winemaker's style & perspective
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