2017 Pinot Blanc Pur
2017 Pinot Blanc Pur
A touch of pip fruits, firestone, yeast dough, brioche and nuts. Salty, juicy and mineral in taste.
Cuvée: Pinot Blanc Pur
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Pinot Blanc
ABV: 11.5%
Vintage: 2017
"Mashing: mash time 12 hours
Fermentation: Wild yeasts, fermented in 1000l wooden barrels
SO2: no added sulfites
MISC: Unfiltered
Bottling: May 2018
Vine cultivation: Trellis-system, organic viticulture, 30-40-year-old vines
Vintage details: very dry and very hot year
Harvest: manual harvesting"
Sulphur: none added
Soil: Loess, loam with a lot of shell limestone
Yield: 35hl/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.