2017 Riesling Pur
2017 Riesling Pur
Rich and fruity - not your typical Riesling!
Cuvée: Riesling Pur
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Riesling
ABV: 11 %
Vintage: 2017
Manual harvesting of the 40-year-old vines after a very dry and very hot year. 5 Days whole bunch cold maceration. Wild yeasts, started partly on the mash, fermented in 1000l old wooden barrels. No added sulfites. Unfiltered. Bottled in May 2018.
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.