2022 Flora
2022 Flora
Flora! Always a fun wine - dark-fruited, giddy blueberry, delirious acid and someone doing doughnuts in the town centre car park. Great fun, who knew all it took for Dornfelder to taste this good was just Daniel & Jonas working their magic.
Cuvée: Flora
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Dornfelder 100%
ABV: 10.5%
Vintage: 2022
Winemaking: Manual harvesting of 40-50 year-old vines after a very dry and very hot year.
50% Carbonic maceration for 7 days, 50% foot crushed and mash fermented for 7 days. Pressed to tank to continue fermentation with wild yeasts. Aged in stainless-steel tank. No added sulphur. Unfiltered.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and shell limestone
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.