Milan Nestarec
Gin Tonic 2017
There’s some skin contact on this wine, as is the Nestarec way, and the juice is spontaneously fermented in open top vats. This leads to a wine that is intensely aromatic with high acidity and more complex than it probably should be. Light bodied and cloudy, this wine is made by the cool kids for the cool kids.
Grape Variety: Sauvignon Blanc, Gruner Veltliner
Region: Moravia, Czech Republic
Tastes like: Hibiscus, lemon rind, green apples, slate
Best with: Fritto misto, pancit bihon, stuffed squash blossoms, peking duck
Size: 750 ml
Alc Content: 12%
made in the czech republic by
Milan Nestarec
No gimmicks, no magic, and no bullshit. Approachable, zippy, and full of life, Milan Nestarec’s wines are now among the most recognizable bottles of natural wines in the world. According to the man himself: Milan Nestarec is not a winery. “It is ideas that just happen to be represented through wine."
a closer look
Behind the Bottle
Somewhat of a prodigy, Milan Nestarec has been entrusted with all the winemaking of his family’s estate in Moravia, Czech Republic since he was 16 years old. Nestarec converted the estate to organic philosophies in 2008, which now produces a prolific number of bottles a year on its 24 hectares.
A vocal advocate of field blends, his white or orange wines almost always see a short amount of skin contact. Nestarec has become an icon of the scene with nothing more than skill, spontaneous fermentation, a bunch of tanks and old barrels, grape juice, and time.