2018 Riesling Monastery
2018 Riesling Monastery
100% Riesling. Fermentation with wild yeasts, aged in used oak barrels for 8 months. No added sulphur. Unfiltered.
Cuvée: Riesling Monastery
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Riesling
ABV: 11.5%
Vintage: 2018
Winemaking: From a single vineyard; the Klosterschaffnerei. This site was associated with a tithe barn used by the monastery at Wadgassen in the Middle Ages to collect taxes from the Bockenheim area. Manual harvesting of 50-year-old vines after a very dry and very hot year. Mashed for 12 hours. Fermentation with wild yeasts, aged in used oak barrels for 8 months. No added sulphur. Unfiltered. Bottled in August 2019
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and shell limestone
Yield: 18 hl/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.