The Farr Rising range is always one we look out for; a range that showcases Nick Farr’s winemaking in a no compromise yet accessible manner. This 2024 Farr Rising Gamay opens with aromas of berry flavours with earthy and gamey notes. The palate is full of red berry fruits with savoury undertones. The structure is long, earthy and lingering. With vibrant acidy and defined tannins, this wine is full of flavour.
"Big, dark, and bright colour in the glass. The nose is intense dark spice, punchy with a hit of salinity, savoury herbs and graphite. Behind this assertive forward barrage, or perhaps layered between it, is a perfumed and pretty musk and confectionary element that gives away it’s carbonic production method. The second sniff is more brown spice, mace and cloves, then ripe Christmas cherries. It’s Gamay of course, with broad, confident strokes of the Farr house style. The palate is summer berries and cream. There is a lovely softness, a full mouth feel and a generosity that sets it apart from most iterations of this grape, but doesn’t stray so far that it loses the archetypal Gamay-ness that is expected. Sitting confidently in the Goldilocks zone of Gamay expression, with a foot clearly in the “more serious than you think” zone, this is a beautiful bottle of wine from one of the Country’s best proponents of Gamay"- Ben Knight.
