We're thrilled to release a new wine from Sophie Evans, the result of a summer jaunt in Franconia - her 2023 Rotling!
In August 2023, with the hard work of that year's sodden growing season mostly behind her in the UK and looking forward to helping her friend Emily Campeau (of Wein Goutte) with harvest, Sophie downed tools to make a trip back to Franconia.
Thankful for her friends (and the opportunity to stop worrying about the UK summer and her broken-down tractor) Sophie spent a week helping Emily with harvest and picked herself a few rows of organic Muller Thurgau & Domina to make a 'Rotling' - a rosé of red and white varieties (in Germany rosés are only allowed to be labelled as such when produced from red grapes exclusively, they coined the term Rotling for these outlaw red/white blends.) With the varieties growing side by side, it made sense to Sophie, who loves field blends, has great fondness for the secret potential of Domina, and with the two varieties growing beside a forest she wanted to capture that special feeling of the parcel rather than separate them.
Sophie's Rotling is an aromatic, textural delight - bags of fruit and alive with acidity, it's the result of macerating the varieties for just 2 days, then 6 months rest in old barrel before bottling. Pretty in pink, Rotling is available now and we're going to be drinking plenty of it whilst the sun shines.
Sophie will be joining us on Monday 24th to pour Rotling for the first time in the UK - drop us a reply to RSVP.
