Kindeli - 'Primavera' - Syrah, Pinot Noir - Upper Moutere, Nelson, NZ - 2020

A rosé pet-nat of syrah and pinot noir. 12-48 hours maceration fermented until almost dry then bottled at RS 10g to give it a bit of pop in the bottle! This tight little souther sippers is juicy, fruity and packed with a tutti fruity, very berry, vibe and backed by a little refreshing bitter citrus bite. 😝 You cannot mess up with Kindeli. --- We are based in Upper Moutere, on the north west of the South Island of New Zealand. We have a small cellar where we craft zero additive wines from 10 different varieties. We currently farm 11 hectares of grapes across 4 vineyards (a combination of owned and leased), with soil types ranging from clay, to gravel and silt. "A natural winemaker's relationship with tradition is complicated. In places like Burgundy, Piedmont or Terra Alta, hundreds of years of work have resulted in a set of rules, written and unwritten, that judge a wine's fidelity to ancestral practice. At the same time, the vagaries of wild fermentation and the freedom of vinification without correction act as a guarantee that no wine is repeatable. But what happens when a winemaker inhabits a place with no long tradition of viticulture? Since 2016, Alex Craighead has been working in near total isolation on New Zealand's South Island to create a tradition of his own, with 5 hectares planted to a cold, North-facing slope in Upper Moutere. The coast of Nelson, New Zealand, where Alex is based, looks more like Vancouver or Patagonia than Europe: windswept, wild and sparsely populated, a country of fishermen and shepherds. While his vineyard is planted to vitis vinifera, his wines don't allude to anything particularly European. To me, they are a statement of one of natural wine's most important values: absolute aesthetic freedom." -Josh Eubanks Percy Wine Imports Great Writeup By Queen Jancis 👑 Here: https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wwc20-kindeli-nelson