2024 Weingut Wasenhaus Vulkan Spätburgunder 1.5L Magnum, Baden, Germany Morey-Coffinet Laissez-faire malolactic conversion

Laissez-faire malolactic conversion

one of La Morra’s most revered sites within the Rocche dell’Annunziata cru—planted circa 40 years ago to Nebbiolo (Lampia and some Michet) on clay-limestone soils with eastern exposure

The wine is aged exclusively in large oak for about 16 months and is bottled without being fined or filtered

reserves of previous distillations are added to the most recent batch evoking a kind of solera

2024 Weingut Wasenhaus Vulkan Spätburgunder 1.5L Magnum, Baden, Germany Morey-Coffinet Laissez-faire malolactic conversionA Pinot noir from Kaiserstuhl, grown on volcanic soil, one vineyard in quite high altitude in the town of Eichstetten and one vineyard in Jechtingen. Due to the clones and rather young age of the vines the fruit got almost entirely de stemmed (10% whole cluster) and fermented in an open top fermenter for 18 days. Aging during 14 months in mainly used barrels. Sultry, fine, emphatic nose of saffron, rose. vom Boden