The Slobodné family have a real knack for making deliciously vivid orange wines and this is Pinot Gris that shows all of that prowess. The fruit undergoes a two-week maceration that lends fine, grippy tannins to this most deeply floral of varieties.
Slovakian winemaking, despite its many similarities to the perhaps more familiar winemaking culture of Austria’s east, remains resolutely under-the-radar but the family behind Trnava’s Slobodné Vinárstvo are working hard to change all that. Working a 17-hectare patchwork of grapes both familiar and less so (Devin anyone?) they are crafting the kind of wines that have put eastern Europe at the very centre of the natural wine conversation. These are delicious, wildly original wines worth a place in any cellar.
The Slobodné family have a real knack for making deliciously vivid orange wines and this is Pinot Gris that shows all of that prowess. The fruit undergoes a two-week maceration that lends fine, grippy tannins to this most deeply floral of varieties.
Slovakian winemaking, despite its many similarities to the perhaps more familiar winemaking culture of Austria’s east, remains resolutely under-the-radar but the family behind Trnava’s Slobodné Vinárstvo are working hard to change all that. Working a 17-hectare patchwork of grapes both familiar and less so (Devin anyone?) they are crafting the kind of wines that have put eastern Europe at the very centre of the natural wine conversation. These are delicious, wildly original wines worth a place in any cellar.
