Vína Herzánovi, Amfora - 2020

Name: Vína Herzánovi, Amfora
Brand: Herzánovi
SKU: 50477
Price: 31.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

750 mL

Item # 50477

A dry skin contact white made from the local Pálava and Traminer. The wine spent 9 months on the skins in qvevri buried in the winery's garden to experience natural temperature fluctuations. Aromatic, tannic, and with aromas of tropical fruits and spices. Pair with pork dumplings with sauerkraut.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

Czech Republic

Region

Moravia

Producer

Herzánovi

Grape Variety

Traminer

Production Methods

Biodynamic

Wine made from grapes grown organically using natural composting techniques and special preparations of herbal sprays while following the astronomical calendar.

Orange Wine (Skin Contact)

Orange wine is made by using white wine grapes, which are pressed and left in contact with the skins, seeds, and stems for an extended period of time, similar to how red wine is made.

This prolonged maceration extracts color, tannins, and phenols, giving the wine a darker, sometimes orange color. It also produces a wine with more structure and intense flavor.

Maceration times can vary between a few hours to many months, with longer contact giving more color and extraction.

Staff Pick Notes

Jakob Herzan earned a doctorate studying maceration of grapes to make wine. He focused on Qvevri, Georgian earth vessels. He used what he learned to make Vina Herzanovi’s Anfora wine. As with all of Herzan's wines, the vines are farmed biodynamically (not certified), and made with minimal intervention. This has macerated, fermented, and aged on the skins for 9 months in the clay pot. The wine is intense with flavors of pine, earth, baking spice, and black tea. Dried figs, dried apricot, and apple skins give the wine a fruit forward push. It also shows salinity, umami, and tannins. Shake and disperse the sediment for that chewy texture. Great with veal osso buco.

- CP

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