2019 Wild Rosé
2019 Wild Rosé
One of Jonas' favourite wines. Tricky to make and never long for this world, it's a favourite of ours too. From their plot of Portugieser particularly loved by wild deer.
Cuvée: Wildrosé
Style: Still
Colour: Rose
Grapes/Blend: Portugieser
ABV: 10.5%
Vintage: 2019
Winemaking: Manual harvesting of 50-year-old vines after a dry, warm and windy year. Enthusiastically foot-crushed whole bunches macerate for 3-4 days . Fermented in 100 year old 1200l wooden barrel and a handful of smaller 10 year old barrels. Unfiltered, bottled in June 2020.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and shell limestone
Yield: 55 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.