2016 Heimat Silvaner
2016 Heimat Silvaner
100% Silvaner. The juice ferments in 225-liter 6-year-old oak barrels for about 6 weeks without temperature control. The skins remain with the juice for about 10 days. Unfined and unfiltered. No added sulphur.
Cuvée: Heimat Silvaner
Style: Still
Colour: Skin
Grapes/Blend: Silvaner
ABV: 11.5%
Vintage: 2016
Winemaking: Grapes are hand harvested and destemmed. The juice ferments in 225-liter 6-year-old oak barrels for about 6 weeks without temperature control. The skins remain with the juice for about 10 days. The wine rests for about 9 more months in the same barrels, with very occasional battonage performed. The wine is not racked and is bottled unfined and unfiltered with zero addition of sulphur.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Shell limestone, Keuper
Yield: 40 hl/ha
Michael and Melanie left their corporate jobs behind and started making wine in Michael’s parents’ winery in 2013. After discovering their taste for natural wine, they converted the 6 hectare vineyard to organic practices. They've developed a repertoire of wild delights which are hand-harvested, indigenous-yeasts vinification without sulphur and unfiltered. As well as their natural range, they also make wines with purchased grapes which are very lightly sulphured and filtered for a slightly different market.