Orange
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Orange
From our hero of the Alsace. Enough texture and depth here to start drinking almost like an aromatic light red. Bright cherry, toasted almond. Tense, balanced acidity with bright red fruit, white pepper and fine tannins.
Style: Still
Producer: JP Rietsch
Country: France
Region: Mittelbergheim, Alsace
Grapes: Pinot Gris
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
After a successful experiment in 2021, we're thrilled Andi has made good quantities of this from the sun-kissed '22 vintage. A giddy cocktail of fruit, herbs and acid: torn apricots & finger-limes, someone bashing mint nearby. Wild stuff.
Style: Still
Producer: Andi Weigand
Country: Germany
Region: Iphofen, Franconia
Grapes: Bacchus, Scheurebe, Muskateller
ABV: 10.5
Sulphur: None added
From a beautiful parcel, Michael’s dads favourite. Pinot Gris fermented on the skins for 10 days for texture and grip, Riesling for a slice of acidity.
Style: Still
Producer: 2Naturkinder
Country: Germany
Region: Kitzingen, Bavaria
Grapes: Pinot Gris, Riesling
ABV: 11.5
Sulphur: None added
Silvaner
Medium Bodied
The Voelkers signature wine, powerful and elegant, just like Michael.
The grapes for this cuvée grow on a fairly steep plot close to the winery on young shell-limestone. The top and the bottom of the vineyard are a bit fatter, the middle section is dry and rocky. Vines are about 30 years old and have been farmed organically for almost 20 years.
Sulphur: None added
Silvaner
Iphofen, Franconia
Medium Bodied
A special one. Delicately spiced, a little smoky, with comice pear, herbal accents of fennel and sage, continues to develop once open. Complexity sings loudest here, though there’s a wild harmony in the mix. Despite the 9 months of skin-contact, this one still hums with the electric acidity present in all of Andi’s wines.
Sulphur: None added
From a single parcel close to the Med. Pithy grapefruit, a lovely bit of integrated reduction, powdery aromatic perfume on salty skin. Great balance
Style: Still
Producer: Larural
Country: Spain
Region: Alt Camp, Catalunya
Grapes: Malvasia
ABV: 11
Sulphur: None added
Single parcel, at 340m elevation. Heady perfumes, lifted freshness. Dripping, fleshy stone fruits macerated under a little salt. Animal energy.
Style: Still
Producer: Larural
Country: Spain
Region: Alt Camp, Catalunya
Grapes: Moscatell
ABV: 10
Sulphur: None added
Moscato Bianco
Light Bodied
Nizza Monferrato, Piedmont
All the hits of a skin-macerated Moscato Bianco that you could ask for: fleshy stone fruits, zesty citrus, a twist of sage over a handful of rose petals.
Sulphur: None added
Cortese
Medium Bodied
Nizza Monferrato, Piedmont
Macerated on the skins, Cortese yields a briney, sage & fennel savoury element, brightened by blood-orange citrus and wet stone minerality. Rare combo of being both a drinker AND a thinker.
Sulphur: None added
Macerated Gewurztraminer; complex & aromatic. Tipping into that lychee and candied citrus peel territory. Lively, saline, fresh.
From maestro of the Alsace, JP Rietsch. Having grown weary of teasing late-harvest, off-dry wines from his more aromatic grape varieties, Jean-Pierre was one of the first growers in the Alsace to experiment with macerating them. Thank goodness he did.
Style: Still
Producer: JP Rietsch
Country: France
Region: Mittelbergheim, Alsace
Grapes: Gewurztraminer
ABV: 13
Sulphur: None added