Tangent by Alexia 2024 Wairarapa Gamay
Tangent is about small parcels, emerging varieties and one-offs, made when the seasons allow.
After no Gamay in 2022 and 2023 we were delighted to pick a small parcel to end our 2024 harvest.
The 2024 vintage was warm and relatively dry, giving us a wonderful opportunity to harvest beautifully ripe grapes. Small bunches and berries created a plush, weighty, serious style wine from the Beaujolais grape.
Handpicked, and hand de-stemmed with a small portion left as whole bunches, then aged 9 months in neutral oak.
Taste: Raspberry, gunflint, chalky, demanding.
Tangent is about small parcels, emerging varieties and one-offs, made when the seasons allow.
After no Gamay in 2022 and 2023 we were delighted to pick a small parcel to end our 2024 harvest.
The 2024 vintage was warm and relatively dry, giving us a wonderful opportunity to harvest beautifully ripe grapes. Small bunches and berries created a plush, weighty, serious style wine from the Beaujolais grape.
Handpicked, and hand de-stemmed with a small portion left as whole bunches, then aged 9 months in neutral oak.
Taste: Raspberry, gunflint, chalky, demanding.
Tangent is about small parcels, emerging varieties and one-offs, made when the seasons allow.
After no Gamay in 2022 and 2023 we were delighted to pick a small parcel to end our 2024 harvest.
The 2024 vintage was warm and relatively dry, giving us a wonderful opportunity to harvest beautifully ripe grapes. Small bunches and berries created a plush, weighty, serious style wine from the Beaujolais grape.
Handpicked, and hand de-stemmed with a small portion left as whole bunches, then aged 9 months in neutral oak.
Taste: Raspberry, gunflint, chalky, demanding.
The grapes for Tangent come from a small experimental block our growers Julie and Simon planted years ago but never harvested. They called it the ‘fruit salad’ block - a mixture of Chenin, Gamay, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and a couple of other varieties. A few little rows of gold in one corner of the vineyard.
The block had been growing as bush vines for the past decade, but we pulled them up onto wires and harvested grapes from them for the first time for the 2019 vintage.
The vines and the wines are both works in progress, evolving with us.