2021 - Fried Chicken - Skin Contact CheninSous Voile Chenin Blanc Swan Valley Zero additions 168 bottles made The Fried Chicken is made of the first fruit to come off of vines that we rehabilitated ourselves and so is a very special wine for us. Back in 2019 we had just enough time to begin rehabilitating 3 rows of Chenin Blanc so that we would have a little something something for the 2021 vintage. Like any good natural wine tragic, the Weirdos enjoy wines that have spent some time under a

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It packs notes of blueberry

a hot ferment being the signature feature of all previous Old Mate Rieslings

This wine blew our minds when we sampled it out of the Qvevri close

these vines were rehabilitated by us starting in the pruning seasons of 2019 and 2020

One puncheon was racked clean

This year it is a very different

The picks were initially crushed and destemmed into both qvevri (before we tucked the Chateau da Swan in

Bottled with a dash of sulphites for pourability and longevity

and marzipan

It was pressed to Stainless tank after

Pressed to seasoned old oak