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Certified organic. And then there were three… Kathleen Quealy and Kevin McCarthy wrote the manifesto on quality Pinot Grigio in Australia, and now we have a new chapter. Taking its name from the Latin for ‘wild sea’, Feri Maris is Quealy’s first single-vineyard Grigio and is drawn entirely from the estate’s organic Balnarring vines that were established in 1982. Here, the mature, dry-grown vines, shallow clay soils and restricted volume are some of the keys to the wine’s expressive character. Then there is the Balnarring climate, which brings flavour early, thus allowing Quealy to pick with freshness in mind.
In the shed, the grapes are whole-bunch-pressed and racked with partial solids. into stainless steel (70%) and French oak hogsheads (30%, half new) to ferment wild. Tom McCarthy notes that the use of partial barrel ferment and maturation is helping to frame the intensity of flavour and texture this site is now offering. Feri Maris sits at the pinnacle of Quealy’s Pinot Grigio portfolio, and you can expect a richer dose of mouth-filling fruit and more mineral steel in this bottling. Full of vitality and verve and dripping in character, this is a killer white from the OG of Australian Pinot Grigio.