PINOT NOIR NOVOSADY 2024

Name: PINOT NOIR NOVOSADY 2024
Brand: Petr Kočařík
SKU: SW-KOCARIK-PINOT-NOIR-NOVOSADY-2024
Price: 40.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Czech Republic , Moravia

Deep ruby with a garnet edge, almost burgundian in the glass. Blackberry, stewed cherry, tobacco, a whisper of toasted plum. Structured. Mineral. Serious.

Wine Type: Red

Size: 750ml

Grapes: Pinot Noir

Drinking Window: Drink now – 2032

Vintage: 2024

Alcohol: 14%

Food Pairings: Braised beef · Aged Comté · Wild game · Grilled lamb

Nutrients: Per 100ml: Energy 406 kJ / 97 kcal · Carbohydrates 0.2 g, of which sugars 0.2 g · Fat 0 g · Protein 0 g · Salt 0 g · Contains sulphites.

€40 €53,33/L

Novosady is the vineyard Petr Kočařík considers the best parcel in Čejkovice. He's not modest about it. Selected French Pinot Noir clones planted on younger vines, calcareous clay subsoil, south-facing slope — the conditions that make Burgundy devotees take notice when they taste wines from this corner of Southern Moravia.

Petr's family winery was among the first seven signatories of the Authentists Charter — a group of Moravian winemakers committed to working without additives or manipulations. He's been at it since 1997, when a wedding gift vineyard became a vocation. Novosady is where that vocation reaches its peak: twelve months on the lees in French oak, no fining, no filtration, minimal sulphur. The wine is bottled by gravity.

The result earns its reputation. Full, mineral, with the kind of structure that makes it equally good now and significantly better in three to five years. The flagship. Drink it or keep it.

The Novosady vineyard sits on sand-loam soils with calcareous clay subsoil, south-facing, at around 230–255 metres above sea level. Petr plants selected French Pinot Noir clones here — a combination chosen specifically for the site. Vines are farmed organically, with no herbicides or non-organic treatments since 2010. Hand-harvested. Spontaneous fermentation with skin maceration. The wine then ages on fine lees in French oak barriques — up to fifteen percent new — for twelve months, with periodic stirring. Total sulphur kept to a minimum. Bottled without fining or filtration, by gravity.

Serve at 16–18°C. This wine needs room temperature, not the fridge.

There may be sediment at the bottom — expected for an unfiltered wine. Stand the bottle upright for a few minutes before serving.

Decanting is recommended. 30 minutes minimum — Novosady is structured and a little closed on opening. Give it air and it will reward you. If you are drinking it young, decanting is not optional, it is the right move.