Quatro Mustachios (Sam Bunker & Dave Haynes)
Portrait credit: Jacob Timms, March 2024
WINEMAKERS
Sam Bunker & Dave Haynes
TYPE OF AGRICULTURE
Negocé, organic uncertified
VINEYARD AREA
Negocé
COUNTRY, REGION, SUBREGION
Introducing the debut UK vintage of Sam Bunker & Dave Haynes at Quatro Mustachios:
Meeting whilst studying at Plumpton (the class of 2017 proving to be a particularly ripe year for excellent winemakers, fellow classmates including Alex from Titch Hill , Sophie Evans and Lucy Chilvers) Sam & Dave officially started their international wine collective, Quatro Mustachios in 2020.
The pair had been working at vineyards across Europe, and alongside the 3rd and 4th Mustachios - Teo Vitsas & Matthias Altmann - produced the first collaborative wine under the Quatro Mustachios tag in Austria at Matthias' cellar.
Inspired by Dave's love of PIWIs the wine was a co-ferment of hybrids, even winning Silver at the PIWI International Wine Award, an unexpected nod that they were onto something.
With David & Sam both working in Spain the year after, they produced two more wines as Quatro Mustachios with fruit picked in Catalunya and Ribeira Sacra in 2021, before returning home to the UK, to focus on their mutual love of hybrids/PIWI's.
The first UK releases for Quatro Mustachios were produced in 2022 with zero additions in Sussex, using fruit from a 50-year-old vineyard in Somerset for their Pet Nat (growing almost wild and unsprayed for three years), and the other varieties coming from a nearby vineyard on clay over sandstone in East Sussex.
The new releases are huge fun, a testament to intuitive, experimental winemaking and the wild potential of PIWIs in the right hands.
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WINES
Dancefloor-refreshment. A lively, pithy pet-nat with a nice line of grip from a 6-day maceration, picked from a practically-wild 50 year old vineyard in Somerset, unsprayed for three years.