Milan Nestarec
Podfuck 2018
Roughly 60% Pinot Noir, 20% Blaufrankisch, and 20% Pinot Blanc, this vintage marks the year where ‘Podfuck’ became a red wine instead of a skin contact white. The grapes are spontaneously fermented together in open top vats then aged in wooden barrels for 2 years. Notes of red berries, and leather on this red with a bit of a wild side, light to medium body and lower tannins make this wine very approachable and versatile with food.
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir, Blaufrankisch, Pinot Gris
Region: Moravia, Czech Republic
Tastes like: Cranberries, rhubarb, leather, freshly turned earth
Best with: Cured meats, mushroom pastas, grilled pork chop with apple sauce
Size: 750 ml
Alc Content: 13%
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.