2019 Riesling Pur
2019 Riesling Pur
100% Riesling with a little maceration, expertly walks the tightrope between complexity and crushability.
Cuvée: Riesling Pur
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Riesling
ABV: 11.5%
Vintage: 2019
Winemaking: Manual harvesting of 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 sulphur. Unfiltered. Bottled in May 2020.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Loess, loam and 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.