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"Skin Contact Blend. Blending varieties is like blending primary colours on a page. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Beautiful Strangers is an aromatic, orange blend of three varieties from two organic Te Matau a Māui vineyards. These varieties are fermented with skins included, coming together from different sides of the flavour spectrum to make a wild and explosive wine.
Floral, red berry, orange zest and musk. The skin contact has provided light herbal, savoury notes to the nose. Juicy, yet dry at the start, this wine flows into stone fruit and tangy grapefruit with a fresh, saline finish and mild tannin.
In late February handpicked 809 (Muscat clone) Chardonnay from Mangatahi was destemmed and sent to a small open fermenter to lay on skins with gentle hand plunging, once a day. After 14 days it was pressed to tank to go through malolactic fermentation. In early March, the Mangatahi Pinot Gris was 100% destemmed to open fermenters and hand plunged twice daily. 7 days later a small amount of Raukawa Sauvignon was destemmed straight into the Pinot gris to co-ferment on skins and after 20 days both varieties were pressed and combined with the Chardonnay tank. Once the wine had settled in tank for a week, the blend of all three varities was racked to large old oak barrels, where it matured for 3 months at cool temperatures. No fining or filtration. Minimal sulphur was added a few weeks before bottling."
