Bikicki!

Bikicki!

Bikicki: spelled Bi-kick-i, pronounced Bee-keetz-kee and ready to inject your empty glass with energy and verve. In a past life, Djordje Bikicki shot hoops, played water polo and enjoyed a career as a drum-and-bass DJ in Belgrade. Now, he tends to his family’s eight organically certified hectares of vine fringing national parkland on Fruška Gora Mountain, which shares the same line of latitude with Piedmont, Bordeaux and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. In other words? Élite. Think of him as Serbia’s answer to Ochota Barrels.

We’re Stoked (capital ‘S’) to be stocking two of Djordje’s cuvées, the first of which is the 2021 Uncensored – traminer that sees six days on skins, from mostly clay soils shot through with marl, limestone and volcanic rocks. It’s a fragrant, floral and perfume-y variety at the best of times, but you’ll get more complexity than that here: rose petals, lychee, mandarin and dried apricot woven through warming, potpourri-esque, gingery spice.

The 2021 Cu presents a thrilling take on skin-contact pinot grigio, coppery and borderline rosé-like in its glimmer and glow. We’re firmly in cranberry/cherry/pomegranate/hibiscus territory here, with sprinkles of dried herbs and a bit of briar patch character, drawn to a close by a gentle pull of chalky tannin. Go on, enter the yum zone. The price is right. The time is now. 
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