The GOODS from JoieFarm

Naramata, BC | Winemaker Heidi Noble and her winemaking team, Alyssa Hubert and Karl Duda, will be guests of Vini Volpe’s next wine night on Monday Monday January 28th 6:30 pm – late. The team will be presenting the wines from JoieFarm’s side label “Chic Fille”. These wines are all super small production (50 cs each or less) and have been release individually over the past 9 months. This special event will give guests the opportunity to taste the entire portfolio of wines which have been released, just about to be released and wines in progress. The event will be a casual, drop stand up tasting that is meant to be fun and conversational. The event is free and the invite is open to both the wine trade and interested public. There will be snacks to accompany and elevate the wines. Beer and cocktails will be available to be purchased.

About “Chic Fille” Wines | The Chic Fille label is a fun, experimental label made by JoieFarm winemaker Heidi Noble, Alyssa Hubert and Karl Duda. The Chic Fille wines have been initiated by a keen interest to learn and teach at JoieFarm. They were inspired by Heidi’s desire to revisit techniques that she had used when first teaching herself how to make wine while allowing on-going experimental, improvisational winemaking over the course of the vintage as a collaborative winery team.

Many of these practices such as ambient fermentation, lees contact, skin contact, and semi-carbonic ferments have become incorporated into the cellar at JoieFarm by Heidi over the course of 15 vintages. The Chic Fille label re-visits each one of the techniques singularly with the goal of making fun, textural, eminently drinkable, and interesting wines. These wines are meant to be enjoyed in the fun spirt of glou glou, while simultaneously provoking conversation of what it means to be artisanal and creative. Overall, these wines help us improve the core JoieFarm portfolio as they continue to showcase the potential for wines created in a cool-climate, lake-moderated terroir.

Chic literally translates as elegant, but colloquially, chic fille translates as ‘cool girl’. Whether playful or earnest, once the cool girl — always the cool girl. These F.U.N. wines are intended to keep JoieFarm toujours chic.

Wines available for tasting:

– Chic Fille Pinot Meunier Rosé 2017 – a low alcohol, eminently quaffable rosé which has an intriguing savoury quality to it.

Chic Fille Pinot Noir Rosé 2018 – a fruit driven, ambently barrel-fermented single vineyard pinot noir.

Chic Fille Pinot Blanc 2017 – a skin contact, old vines pinot blanc which is both textural, honey-ed and savoury delicious.

Chic Fille Pinot Gris 2018 – a skin contact pinot gris that changed Heidi’s mind about the potential for pinot gris in BC forever.

Chic Fille Hollenbach Pinot Noir Duo – a rare side by side release that is a single vineyard site selection of two wines – one ambient yeast fermented and one favourite burgundian yeast strain fermented.

Chic Fille Gamay 2017 – a semi-carbonic, foot tread single vineyard gamay that underwent a long, cool natural ambient yeast ferment. A spicy, grippy powerhouse.

Chic Fille Gewürztraminer 2018 – A fun skin contacted “orange” skin-contacted Gewürztraminer, bottle slightly “petitllant”. This will be a unreleased tank sample bottled for exclusively for the event (among other fun tank samples from 2018 vintage wines in progress, if we can fit them into our car).

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