2023 Wilder Satz
2023 Wilder Satz
The German jigsaw puzzle. Cloudy lemonade for grownups built from a dizzying blend of all the brothers white varieties. ‘Satz is always their first taste of a vintage, assembled in spring each year.
Cuvée: Wilder Satz
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Pinot Blanc 24% (12 hour maceration), Müller Thurgau 21% (24-36 hour maceration), Riesling 12% (some pressed directly, some suspended in Kerner juice), Chardonnay 12% (12 hour maceration), Scheurebe 10% (24 hour maceration), Kerner 8% (36 hour Riesling infusion), Pinot Gris 6% (48 hour maceration), Silvaner 7% (12 hour maceration)
ABV: 10%
Vintage: 2023
Winemaking: Each variety is picked by parcel, and begins vinification the same way: enthusiastically foot-stomped, then left to macerate for varying lengths. Pressed off slowly to whichever tanks and barrels the brothers decide the varietal is destined for, the wines are then left to ferment and are not touched again, until assemblage. The blend is put together the following spring over a week of tasting, their first taste of that years vintage : the 2023 was blended and bottled in April 2024, unfiltered and with no added sulphur.
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.