‘Nita'

Saperavi, Igoeti, Georgia

This sassy light-bodied red drinks like a Beaujolais for people who have read Infinite Jest. Tough as nails Saperavi grapes thrive in the cool and breezy Georgian region of Khashmi, whose clay and limestone soils give the wine a brisk minerality that feels like waking up refreshed and rarin’-to-go after a much-needed catnap. With its savoury, earthy notes of red beet and fresh tarragon, Nita is evocative of the first, very-earliest days of spring, when the world is still kind of muddy and grey but the scent of fresh green is in the air and everyone has a skip in their step full of post-winter hope. Semi-carbonic maceration for 10 days  before fermentation in qvevri, which helps preserve the purity of the fruit. This vintage of Nita is *shimmering* with a Cru-Beaujolais-adjacent glow with bright n’ sappy wild strawberry, smoked beetroot, seedy raspberry, pine & cheek sticking tannins. Drink while wearing horn-rimmed tortoiseshell reading glasses on a late winter Sunday for maximum experiential impact. Enjoy lightly chilled!