Framingham F Series Marlborough Old Vine Riesling 2023

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Framingham F Series Marlborough Old Vine Riesling

Region: Marlborough, New Zealand

Vintage: 2023

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Riesling

ABV: 13%

On the nose there are bright notes of orange peel and lemon zest, with some savoury characteristics and elements of wet stone. The palate shows exotic fruit flavours with great power and concentration. The wine has a textural mouthfeel and a long, fine finish with fresh acidity.

Grapes for the F-Series Old Vine Riesling were organically grown, on a single vineyard planted over 40 years ago in Renwick, Marlborough. Soils are composed of fist sized greywacke stones (a hard, dark type of sandstone streaked with quartz and feldspar) mixed with alluvial gravel and silt. Vineyard practice for this wine is geared to produce ripe grapes that have had the maximum hang time on the vine to develop concentrated and vivid flavours. The vines are trained on a two-cane Guyot trellis system with vertical shoot positioning and are naturally low yielding, producing small crops of intensely flavoured grapes. All harvesting is done by hand.

Fruit was all hand harvested. 90% was immediately whole bunch pressed to tank, settled for 6hrs and then run to Acacia barrel for spontaneous fermentation. The remainder (10%) was destemmed and went through partial fermentation on skins prior to being pressed off to ceramic jars to complete ferment. The various components were then left un-sulphured on full ferment lees for 10 months before being blended and bottled.

Based in Marlborough, Framingham is home to some of the oldest Riesling vines in the region, with their first plantings dating back to 1981. Though still focused on Riesling, they now produce a range of wines from their 19.5-hectare estate vineyard, certified organic in 2014, alongside other carefully selected sites across Marlborough. Their reputation is such, that Jancis Robinson has described Framingham as “one of the finest producers of Riesling, both in and outside Germany”.

https://framingham.co.nz