Pheasant's Tears Poliphonia 2019
£24.27 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / North Ireland
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Style
Occasions
Winery
Size
Appellation
Alcohol
12.0%
Grapes
Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Skin soaking for 6 days, direct pressing and spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts in qvevri. Aged for 9 months in qvevri.
Description
Pheasant's Tears Poliphonia is a wine described as "harmonious chaos", a definition coined by John Wurdeman to describe this blend that combines 417 indigenous Georgian grape varieties, out of the 525 known to date. Poliphonia is a mixed planted field with 1-10 vines of each of the 417 varieties. This micro-vineyard is harvested in 3-4 stages, as the grapes ripen at different times. Thus, white, golden-green, blue, purple, grey-pink grapes are obtained at different levels of ripeness, which are finally co-fermented together. In terms of winemaking, 90% of the grapes are destemmed and the remaining 10% are fermented whole bunch. Everything is fermented naturally in buried qvevri. After a five-day maceration, the must is pressed.
Taste
Pheasant's Tears Poliphonia itself is delicious, more like a dark rosé than a red, with juicy fruit and a pleasant herbal touch. The idea behind this wine is to preserve and promote indigenous grapes, providing a reason for them to be replanted. This wine also plays energetically with the idea of Georgian folk singing; different voices at different pitches and intervals coming together in a tonal fusion. As with music, with wine you have to surrender to cultivate the message. Georgian wine seems atonal; strange in colour and peculiar in texture, but with the right food and occasion, it makes perfect sense.
Shipping to North Ireland
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| 1-6 | £10.97 | £5.49 (-£5.49) |
| 7-12 | £14.89 | £7.44 (-£7.44) |
| 13-18 | £20.84 | £10.42 (-£10.42) |
| 19-24 | £28.50 | £14.25 (-£14.25) |
| 25-30 | £33.09 | £16.54 (-£16.54) |
| 31-36 | £37.00 | £18.50 (-£18.50) |
| 37-42 | £44.66 | £22.33 (-£22.33) |
| 43-48 | £48.91 | £24.46 (-£24.46) |
| 49-54 | £55.25 | £27.62 (-£27.62) |
| 55-60 | £59.37 | £29.69 (-£29.69) |
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