2018 Muller Thurgau Pur
2018 Muller Thurgau Pur
100% Muller Thurgau. Wild yeasts, started partly on the mash, fermented in 500l old wooden barrels. No added sulfites. Unfiltered.
Cuvée: Müller Thurgau Pur
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Muller Thurgau
ABV: 10.5%
Vintage: 2018
Winemaking: Manual harvesting of 40-year-old vines after a very dry and very hot year. 5 days whole bunch cold maceration. Wild yeasts, started partly on the mash, fermented in 500l old wooden barrels. No added sulfites. Unfiltered. Bottled in May 2019
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and shell limestone
Yield: 45 hl/ha
Fifth-generation winemaker Daniel Brand first brought organic production to his Bockenheim family farm in 2007 and joined by brother Jonas, started producing wines without sulphur in 2014 (Pur). Riesling and Pinot Blanc dominate their collection, and they make wines with youthful attitude but also care and precision. Their 16 hectares are mostly on the windy Bockenheimer hillside, planted on loam with a lot of shell limestone. It is one of the coolest climate sites in the Pfalz.