Fletcher Wines
(Image: Dave Fletcher - Fletcher Wines / www.jamesmorgan.com.au)

 

About

For the Wines

"I consider myself lucky to be making wines in the Langhe and even luckier that I have no legacy to follow. It's led to a freedom to play and deconstruct tradition, all in an attempt to start afresh without any boundaries. I'm on a constant search for great vineyards, and always trying to make wines that give a sense of passion and place. Not all of them are single vineyards, because I think great things can come from careful crafting. Not all the wines will be produced each year either, as nature dictates most of what I do.
I use everything I've learnt from my experiences of making wine and working in the vineyards around the world, pulling out the methodology that I believe in and then injecting a few twists and turns.......Hopefully it all works for you!
For those that need to know.....
I use 100% spontaneous fermentation but with a 'pied de cuve' method. I use old wood in the form of Barriques and Botte Grande. Sometimes I have to buy new wood to get old wood and this gets used on the X-blend and the Chardonnay. I never, ever, filter the wines or use fining agents!

​In the Vineyards

50% of the vineyards I work with are certified organic and the other half is under conversion. As a day job I work for one of the biggest Biodynamic producers in Barolo and Barbaresco. I believe 100% in these techniques for my own grape production and strive for better health and lower impact for the vines and their surroundings. Not wanting to contribute to an ever increasing mono-culture in the Langhe, I offset the land used for my grape production with ownership of the equivalent area in Forest, swamp and grasslands rich in biodiversity." - Fletcher Wines

2022 Langhe Chardonnay

Fletcher C22 Langhe DOC Chardonnay 2022 is a limited production Chardonnay out of Barbaresco. Whole bunch pressed to Burgundian barriques, 30% new oak,with no batonnage or malo and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Half of the fruit is bought, the other from his own vineyard on the Bricco Capre. Classic chardonnay flavours with a distinctive structure on the palate. Bright flavours of grapefruit and lemon merge with those of fresh stone fruits and melon. The flavours are pronounced but with the depth and structure of the palate balancing this perfectly. This wine will age gracefully and develop over many years to come.

'It was the second year that we decided to pick the Chardonnay in two distinct picks. The first nice and early, to give the citrus aromas and palate zing. The second to add volume and depth to the palate and also to push the complexity up a level with stone fruits, melon and pear. As always we kept the oak integrated with no more than a third new. - David Fletcher

2022 Fletcher 'Minion' Nebbiolo- VICTORIA

Sourced from regions, Pyrenees & Yarra Valley. Always a blended wine, retaining the traditions of Piedmonte blending. 100% Nebbiolo. Open ferment, 100% destemmed. regions fermented separately, then blended. Old barrique. 14 months in wood.

2020 Barbaresco Recta Pete DOCG

 

www.jancisrobinson.com review by Walter Speller on 25 July 2023

 

"50% Roncaglie (Barbaresco), 35% Starderi (Neive), 15% Ronchi (Barbaresco).

Youthful, just mid ruby. Lifted, sweetly spiced raspberry fruit and an elegant, complex, dry oak note. Embryonic and compact and with succulent acidity. Firm, chewy tannins and with fantastic length. Already delicious. (WS)

14.5%
Drink 2023 – 2030
17"

2020 Barbaresco Faset

www.jancisrobinson.com review by Walter Speller on 25 July 2023

 

"Barbaresco. Just mid ruby. Firm, perfumed, sweet red-fruit nose with an undertow of minerals. Finely tuned fruit on the palate with a layer of super-fine, deep, crunchy tannins. Still needs to unfurl but has a great future. (WS)

14.5%
Drink 2024 – 2034
17.5"

2020 Barbaresco Starderi

www.jancisrobinson.com review by Walter Speller on 25 July 2023

 

"Neive. Just mid ruby. Exciting, earthy and minerally raspberry nose with an undertow of marzipan. Vibrant acidity that melts into the pure raspberry fruit, and soft, gripping tannins that last and last. Amazing length. (WS)

14.5%
Drink 2023 – 2033
17 +"

2020 Barbaresco Roncaglie

www.jancisrobinson.com review by Walter Speller on 25 July 2023
  

"Barbaresco. Youthful, mid ruby. At first, a little compact and subdued on the nose. With aeration, an amazing amalgam of garden herbs and liquorice powder and with complex cherry fruit lurking underneath. Super-elegant palate weight with great fruit purity. Finely ground, long tannins and nervy acidity. Quite a stunner. (WS)

14.5%
Drink 2023 – 2036
17.5 +"

Cantina Della Stazione - New Releases

2022 LANGHE DOC FAVORITA

Denomination: Langhe Favorita D.O.C.
Comunes: Alba
Variety: 100% Favorita
Area: 1Ha
First year of production: 2021
Annual production: 2,000 bottles
Coming from our own vineyard in the zone of Alba, this Favorita is produced from vines that are 60 years old. Sadly, Favorita is becoming rarer in the Langhe but we believe it has the possibility to produce great wine. We aim to always pick twice once, for acidity and the second for fruit complexity.
Winemaking
The grapes are whole bunch pressed and the juice is settled naturally (without added enzymes or sulphur dioxide) for a period of 4 hours. It is then racked to French barriques of which all are old so as not to give wood flavour. Alcoholic fermentation is completed in barrel with no added yeast. No Malic fermentation. The wine will stay in barrique on fermentation lees for 8 months without battonage and racked only when it is time for bottling. The bottling is done without fining or filtration.

2022 DOLCETTO D’ALBA DOC

Denomination: Dolcetto d’Alba D.O.C.
Comunes: Alba
Variety: 100% Dolcetto
Area: 1.3Ha
First year of production: 2021
Annual production: 2,000 bottles
Coming from our own vineyard in the zone called by the locals ‘Bricco Capre’, this Dolcetto is produced from vines that are on average 60 years old. The production is under 50% of what it could do, but the quality it produces is outstanding. In this wine, we are searching for bright, fresh aromatics typical of dolcetto, medium body with a gentle, chalky tannin finish.
Winemaking
As with all my wines, the wine is made with gentle extraction and focus on the aromatics in preference to colour and tannin. Open fermented with wild yeast, and aged for 8 months in 10 year old barriques. The bottling is done without fining or filtration.

2022 BARBERA D’ALBA DOC

Denomination: Dolcetto d’Alba D.O.C.
Comunes: Alba
Variety: 100% Barbera
Area: 1.3Ha
First year of production: 2021
Annual production: 2,000 bottles
As with the Dolcetto and Favorita under the ‘Cantina della Stazione’ label this Barbera is derived from our own vineyard in the zone called by the locals ‘Bricco Capre’ which is within the Alba DOC. An average age of 60 years and extremely low cropping, the fruit always perfectly formed with crunchy skins and amazing fruit intensity.
Winemaking
This is the one wine we play with whole bunch fruit during fermentation. We use it to achieve a style of Barbera that is extremely elegant and lifted in the aromatics and layered with complexity on the palate. Rather than soft and fruit driven, it becomes more structured and defined. As with all my wines, the wine is made with gentle extraction and focus on the aromatics in preference to colour and tannin. Open fermented with wild yeast, and aged for 8 months in 10 year old barriques. The bottling is done without fining or filtration

(Image: Dave Fletcher - Fletcher Wines / www.fletcherwines.com)

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