The return of Loose Juice! One of the UKs first legal Piquettes. Vibrant and crunchy, this easy-going juice-bomb is primed for ultimate refreshment. At only 5%, this is a real glugger. Find out more.
About the wine
Super fresh and energy-filled Pinot Noir which has been crafted with the lightest of touch, the final wine falling somewhere in-between chillable red and dark rosé. The wine was made from biodynamically farmed grapes from Lucie & Jules at Ham Street, Kent (2023 being their first year of certification).
The grapes underwent a gentle two-week whole bunch maceration in fibreglass before being pressed to two old burgundy barrels for 9 months. Wanting to capture its freshness, they bottled the wine in early June - to the serendipitous radio soundtrack of Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower cover - the hat tip they needed to bring back an old label for another round in a new guise. A total fruit bomb!
About Offbeat
Offbeat Wines was born in 2018 as a creative outlet for Daniel whilst he was heading up the winemaking at Langham Wine Estate in Dorset, but it has since grown into a full-time family operation. Since 2020, Daniel and his wife Nicola (both formally marine biologists) have been making wines in their own cellar, a converted barn at Botley’s Farm, just outside Salisbury.
Dan & Nicola have developed close relationships with responsible, passionate growers in the South West, and their wines for the foreseeable future will be focused on celebrating the quality of fruit from two farms in particular. They work with Duncan McNeill, who farms an organic vineyard in Crouch Valley and Lucie and Jules in Kent who are farming biodynamically.
Nicola and Daniel work as naturally as possible, ferments are wild, and production is tiny with only around 2,000 bottles of each cuvée made. The project is another shining example of showing the potential of English natural wines. The project going from strength to strength, we look forward to seeing what happens next.
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