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Don't Feed the Ponies Furze 2021

A rich and oxidative wine made with 60% skin contact and barrel matured Pinot Gris and 40% Madeleine Angevine matured in stainless steel. After one year the wines were blended where they matured for a further 24 months in old French oak barrels with some under a flor. The resulting wine has baked apple, bruised apricot and nutty characteristics with good weight, balance and grip. 

This wine is part of our new Don't Feed The Ponies range of more experimental wines, a reference to a campaign on Dartmoor National Park to discourage visitors from feeding the wild horses that roam there. The source of the River Dart begins way up in the heart of the moors, and it's the river that influences how our grapes grow. For every bottle purchased from this range, we'll donate 25p to the Dartmoor Preservation Association to preserve the natural habitat.

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  • Style
    Dry / Textured / Complex orange wine
  • Grape Variety
    Pinot Gris & Madeleine Angevine
  • Vintage
    2022
  • Ageing
    2 weeks on skins, 24 months in old French oak.
  • ABV
    11%

Wine Making

The grapes were hand harvested in October before being removed from the stems and crushed. We let the juice soak in contact with the skins for two to three weeks to extract flavour, colour and tannin before transferring the free run juice into stainless steel where we waited for the fermentation to take place naturally by relying upon indigenous vineyard yeasts. both varieties were blended and matured in old oak for 24 months, some under flor. The wine is bottled without any fining or filtration in order to maximise flavour and texture and can therefore appear slightly hazy with some harmless sediment.