Arilds Vingård, Kullaberg, Skåne
Anette is a former biology and natural sciences teacher who together with her husband stumbled upon their future vineyard outside Arild in 1997. They started a family and Anette continued working as a teacher. However she nurtured a dream of one day working within the wine industry and in 2007 the pair decided to plant their first vines. Anette decided to study oenology and did so mainly in Germany, additionally she studied to become a sommelier.
Jonas is the creative entrepreneur who’s always on the look out for a new challenge. While Anette studied he took care of the kids and built the wine cellar. He’s the guy who makes sure that stuff run smoothly in the cellar and in the vineyards.
The Ivarsson family has since 2006 been cultivating their vineyard here on Kullaberg in the north of Skåne.
Annette and Jonas mostly grow PIWI’s, a family of grapes that are resistant toward many types of fungi and require no pesticides. They also grow Pinot Noir Precoce. Joe Roman, originally from California, is their head winemaker and he’s been in the industry for many years. The reason he moved to Sweden is because he wanted to work environmentally friendly and his professor on his master programme recommended Sweden since we have mostly PIWI’s planted here. At Arild’s they are a small international team with the latest addition of agronomical engineer Lorena Sorrroche from Mendoza.
The first harvest took place in 2010 and the goal is to make wine the low intervention natural way without the use of pesticides. Weeds are taken care of by Sheep that are now munching away between the rows in the vineyards and today the family is tending to 20 full hectares.
A natural step was also to develop an agroturismo and restaurant, yes the family’s projects are growing with each passing year.
2022 Pet Nat
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Solaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, light grape pressing and juice gravity racking (within 12 hours). Stainless steel fermentation with indigenous yeast. Bottled just before fermentation is completed to achieve around 3 atm of pressure. Wine produced with minimal intervention. No added SO2.
NV Bubbel Muscaris
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Muscaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, light grape pressing and juice racking (within 12 hours). Stainless steel cold fermentation. Dosage added as a last step. Dosage 40g/L.
2021 Bubbel SoMu
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: 90% Solaris och 10% Musacaris.
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, and light pressing. Juice racking within 8 hours. Separate cold fermentation for each wine. Blended then second fermentation completed. Dosage added as last step.
Dosage 12,9g/L.
2022 Hipster Solaris (Also in 20 L Key-Keg)
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Solaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, followed by stainless steel fermentation from the free-run and lightly pressed juice. Natural gravity racking for wine sediments removal.
Aged in stainless steel tanks until bottling in mid April 2023.
2021 Hipster Solaris K-keg 30 L
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Solaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, followed by stainless steel fermentation from the free-run and lightly pressed juice. Natural gravity racking for wine sediments removal.
Aged in stainless steel tanks until bottling in mid April 2022.
2021 Hipster Muscaris
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Muscaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, followed by cold stainless steel fermentation with indigenous yeast from free run juice. Gravity racking for every step. Unfiltered. Wine produced with minimal intervention.
2022 Orange
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: 33% Solaris, 33% Muscaris, 33% Souvignier Gris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, followed by manual punch downs and manual pump overs. 25 days skin maceration then pressed and blended. Final wine was taken from the top of the tank to avoid filtration. Wine produced with indigenous yeast and minimal intervention.
2021 Pinot Noir (Also in K-keg 20 L)
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Pinot Noir
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Vinification: Destemming, manual pump overs and punch downs. Six months aging in 50% new French oak, gravity racking, unfiltered.
Drufavec Vit
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Solaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Process: Double distilled in a copper pot still. 37,5 cl, 40%
Drufavec Brun
Soil: Sand, clay, gneiss & kullait
Grape: Solaris
Age of vines: Planted 2007-2016
Process: Double distilled in a copper pot still. Aged in old red wine barriques for a year. 37,5 cl, 40%