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Christina | Skin Contact Chardonnay

Christina | Skin Contact Chardonnay

Skin-contact with Austrian wine royalty

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Buttercream, kumquat toast, and orange peel. There is a hint of baked apple and soft baking spice too – this wine is the brilliance of defining your own style. An extraordinary expression of Chardonnay that was left on the skins (hence the ‘skin-contact’) for 18 days, while the wine extracted all the gorgeous color and fruity tannins from those skins. It’s spontaneously fermented with native yeasts, so the wine stays fresh and alive, with a touch of a lift, not quite a fizz, on the tongue. 

Delicious With

So good with aromatic cuisine like Thai curries, or savory buttery dishes like Indian korma. Beautiful with grilled fish or lemon roasted chicken.

Their Cred

The Netzl family has lived and farmed in the very same village since 1650. Having helped her family with running the mixed farm and vineyards since an early age, Christina knew she wanted to be a winemaker already at the age of five. Inspired by the quality of the natural wines she discovered while living in London and the birth of her two daughters, Christina decided to turn the whole property organic in 2013 and started her own range of natural wines two years later. The labels of the wines are a tribute to the beneficial insects that inhabit the vineyards where they help manage pests and build soil health and biodiversity. The whole family lives and makes wine in the same charming house – a veeery long building running from the street straight up to the cellar and one of their vineyards.

Winery   Christina

Type   Chardonnay

Sustainability   Biodynamic

Origin   Carnuntum, Austria

Alcohol   13.0%

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