We're glad to have received a fresh shipment from Daniel & Jonas Brand in Bockenheim, spanning the broadest handful of new vintages we have received from them in quite a while. It's lovely to have a very full collection together!
Arriving predominantly from the 2024 vintage - something of a return to 'normal' after a trickier 2023. Plenty of rainfall replenished the vineyards, followed by a warm, sunny growing season that produced wines Jonas described recently as lighter and more playful. The newest wines have the limestone signature of the brother's vineyards, but boast more floral aromatics and bright fruit than the taut, mineral profile of 2023.
There are plenty of wines to get through here, so they're detailed below with some insights from Jonas along the way. With the new releases we also have a top-up of their new Orange Pur and the brighter 2024 Wilder Satz.
Of course what makes their wines so compelling isn't just the process in the cellar, but the way Daniel & Jonas continue to farm. Working organically and beyond for a decade, they have been actively developing healthier soils through regenerative agriculture, encouraging biodiversity and reducing intervention. 10 years of this commitment is really shining through in these new wines.
SPARKLING
NEW 2024 - Rose Pet Nat - Pinot Noir
A three day maceration of Pinot Noir, great juicy fruit and bright acids this year, super playful.
WHITE
2024 - Wilder Satz - Field Blend
A spring blend of each of their white varieties from barrel, the 2024 is fun and elegant, with nice fruit. Jonas said of the wine in comparison with last year "23 was really quite mineral and edgy, a little pushy with the VA which had been hard to control. 2024 we made less but its a really nice vintage, very playful, and it opens up really beautifully."
NEW 2024 - Riesling Pur
"We changed to less skin maceration, so now one half is a 2-3 day maceration, and the other is 12 hours, it works really well. It's very light in alcohol, but the limestone gives it such nice structure, its a very pretty vintage, again quite floral. It's super nice."
NEW 2020 - Pinot Blanc Holy Chapel
“Even though 2020 was the third consecutive hot & dry year, there was good VA in the 2020 which has really benefitted from the 5 years in bottle, it's very bright. This vineyard has so much energy, you can feel it, even in hot years it really delivers.”
NEW 2023 - Riesling Monastery
“From our oldest Riesling vineyard - 60 year old vines - this site aways has such great concentration with their being a limestone table here that absorbs sun through the day and reflects it back at night. 23 was more mineral and tense, very long.”
NEW NV - Riesling Magnum Only
“The special magnum only Riesling is a project we started in 2015, when we selected one of the barrels of Riesling that was more of an outlier to bottle as its own wine. For the last few years it has been more of a celebration of the art of blending with Daniel selecting barrels from back vintages since 2017 and assembling a blend that shows this wilder side of Riesling. This edition is super-cool, its actually really easy to drink but very complex - a blend of barrels from the last nine years!”(Due to the dimensions these are only be available on palletised orders when shipping out of London. Within London is no problem.)
SKINS
2025 - Orange Pur - Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay, Auxerrois, Pinot Gris, Scheurebe, Pinot Noir
"This is harvested from our parcels at the bottom of the hill on the sandier soils, which gives much softer tannins. We want something easy and juicy
RED
NEW 2024 - Pinot Noir Pur
”The 2024 reds are so happy. We had a lot of hail in 2023 and the reds in particular you could really feel this stress event in the wines. It's strange. But the 2024's are easy, playful, really lovely fruit. It's a mix of our mash fermentation and carbonic maceration for the balance we love.”