About The Wine
Year after year, Hochkirch keeps raising the bar with their incredible Rieslings!
The 2023 season was seriously cold in Henty, and that’s saying something. After all, this is Australia’s coolest wine-growing region.
The fruit comes from John Nagorcka’s biodynamically certified home farm, a site with 20 acres of vines that face north and sit in gravelly loam basalt soils about 250 metres above sea level.
The Riesling was picked by hand and pressed to tank for wild fermentation. After a month, the wine was racked off gross lees to tank for eight months’ maturation on fine lees. A small dose of sulphur was added before the wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered.
About Hochkirch
"This is about as close to the ideal biodynamic vineyard as you could imagine: the 8 hectares of unirrigated vines and the winery are just one part of the Nagorcka family’s farm which also produces sheep, pigs and grain. The farm has been biodynamic since 1998: the wines get better with each vintage”. - Max Allen.
Both Hochkirch and Tarrington vineyards are dry-grown and on their own roots, vineyard work is manual, and yields are characteristically tiny. The Nagorckas entire farm is Demeter-certified (since 2003). They are known for their ability to leave the grapes to their own business: wild ferments, a little skin-contact for the whites, large neutral oak, non-filtering or fining and minimal sulphur the only addition.
Snapshot
Region: Henty, VIC
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2023
Alcohol: 11.5%
Size: 750ml
Closure: Cork
Varietal: Riesling
