Milan Nestarec, OKR 1L 2024

Milan on this wine: “Our wines have been gradually shifting towards less skin contact and more nuance – especially the White Labels, our “top shelf”, see shorter and shorter maceration times. That said, I still like to enjoy a (tamed) skin contact wine from time to time; and I understand that a lot of people are, on the contrary, suckers for this style, since hardly a week goes by without someone asking me for something orange. In short, skin contact wines still have their place in my heart and cellar, and creating an amber brother to our dear Běl & Nach liters was kind of a no-brainer.”

The name Okr (ochre in Czech) follows the concise, color-themed concept of its siblings Běl and Nach, and honors eponymous natural pigment with a long history of use by humans, made from actual earth and offering the same hues as orange wines, from yellow to orange or amber.

Grapes: Gruner Veltliner, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, Pálava

Soil: Loess, clay, sand – blend of different vineyards in Bílovice and Moravský Žižkov, aged from 4 to 21 years. Estate-owned, organic.