NV Riesling (Magnum Only)
NV Riesling (Magnum Only)
A special bottling – each year, the brothers assemble a small combination of different barrels and tanks of Riesling from across different vintages in the cellar. A limited, one-off blend each year.
Cuvée: Riesling Pur NV (Magnum Only)
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Riesling
ABV: 11 %
Vintage:
The most recent bottling comprises roughly 70% of the 2021 vintage and 30% of the 2022. It comprises special barrels the brothers decide could develop nicely with a bit more time. Always has a little freshly fermented juice from the latest vintage added.
Manual harvesting of the 40-50 year-old vines. 5-7 days whole-bunch cold maceration. Wild yeasts fermentation in 500L old wooden barrels. No added sulfites. Unfiltered.
Sulphur: none added
Soil: Loess, loam with a lot of 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.