2016 Kleine Wanderlust
2016 Kleine Wanderlust
From two hugely unfashionable hybrid/crossed varieties they have managed to make some bright and juicy semi-carbo goodness.
Cuvée: Kleine Wunderlust
Style: Still
Colour: Red
ABV: 12%
Grape Varieties: 85% Regent, 15% Domina
Vintage: 2016
The Regent vines grow in Sulzfeld (just a few kilometres away from the winery) on shell limestone. Aiming for ripe but not “bursting” grapes, destemmed but the berries not crushed to get a bit of a carbonic effect. After a week the must was pressed and the juice kept fermenting in steel. The wine was racked once around Christmas and blended before bottling with 15% of Domina we had kept from 2015. Harvested in September 2016 and bottled in July 2017.
Acid: 5.6 g/L Residual sugar: 0.0 g/L
Sulphur: None added, 7mg/l total
Soil: Shell limestone, Keuper
Yield: 40hl/ha