Unkel 'Life on Mars' 2023 Gifts

Unkel 'Life on Mars' 2023 GiftsThe Life on Mars is a very unconventional blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling, all fermenter separately in a mix of tank and barrel before being blended together two months before bottling. Peach, apricot, apple and dried pineapple are all on display here it's a textural wine, thanks to minimal skin contact when pressed. A super picnic wine for summer to serve ice cold!

Working a 17-hectare plot in the Danubian Lowlands they are crafting the kind of wines that have put eastern Europe at the very centre of the natural wine conversation

then blended together after ferment

china root

Jenna Castetbon and Romuald Roudier Théron meet a plastic surgeon who works to erase her patients' complexes and restore their confidence

The wine displays dark purple fruit

always expressive of the meeting of the Mediterranean with high-elevation volcanic terroir surrounding the ancient city

not always common in this famous region

and elegant

and this bottling from a vineyard that sits in front of a serrated ridge

In reference to this tradition

and Andrea Filippini

unafraid of a more oxidative style