We are very pleased to have available this week a new pet-nat from Sam & Dave at Quatro Mustachios!
Introducing s.l.u.g: a pithy, refreshing maceration of Solaris with a dash of direct-press Pinot Noir to lift its acidity, ideal summer drinking! The wine was disgorged a few weeks ago, and has seen no additions. More details below.
Alongside s.l.u.g we've also received a little top-up of their dancefloor refresher: Last Night A DJ Seyval'd My Life. Both wines featuring the wild illustration work of Ducksoup's own Marc Springhetti.
If you're unfamiliar with the story: Sam & Dave met whilst studying at Plumpton in 2017 (alongside Sophie Evans, Lucy Chilvers and Titch Hill's Alex Tristram) and started their 'international wine collective' Quatro Mustachios in 2020.
Working at vineyards across Europe, they produced their first collaborative wine (alongside their friends Teo Vitsas & Matthias Altmann) under the Quatro Mustachios tag in Austria, with further releases from Catalunya and Ribeira Sacra in 2021, before returning home to the UK, to focus on channelling their mutual love of hybrids/PIWI's into highly delicious wines from homegrown fruit in 2022.
Their wines are huge fun, a testament to their intuitive, experimental winemaking and the wild potential of PIWIs in the right hands.
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NEW 2023 - s.l.u.g - Solaris, Pinot Noir
Picked from a co-planted vineyard over loamy clay in Toppesfield, Essex: whole-bunch Solaris was foot crushed and macerated for 4 days, pressed to tank, topped up with 10% direct-press Pinot Noir and fermented for 3 weeks before bottling to continue fermentation as a pet-nat. The wine was disgorged a few weeks ago, and has seen no additions.
2022 - Last Night a DJ Seyval-ed My Life - Seyval Blanc