2022 White Pet Nat
2022 White Pet Nat
From the warm, dry 2022 vintage, this edition is fuller, with fleshy fruit, bruised stonefruit crushed over lime. Delicious
Cuvée: Pet Nat Blanc
Style: Sparkling
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Sylvaner 40%, Pinot Blanc 60%
ABV: 10 %
Vintage: 2022
Winemaking: Manual harvesting of 20-50 year old vines. Foot-stomped and macerated for 10 hours. Fermented in stainless steel and old barriques. Unfiltered, no additions.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and shell limestone
Yield: 45hl/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.