Terraces Red, Vineyard Project 002, Roterfaden - 2021

Name: Terraces Red, Vineyard Project 002, Roterfaden
Brand: Roterfaden
SKU: 42945
Price: 13.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 42945 750 mL

A delightful red blend that's unoaked and comes from Swabia - an area within Bavaria that's nestled between the wine regions of Baden and Württemberg, the vines are planted precariously high with steep inclination in an amphitheater. This is an obscure wine-growing area in Germany making this an interesting find.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2021

Country

Germany

Producer

Roterfaden

Grape Variety

Lemberger

Regent

Schwarzriesling

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

Wife and husband team of Olympia Samara and Johannes Hoffmann have committed themselves to making eclectic and interesting wines in Württemberg, Germany. With only a half-hectare of vineyards planted by Hoffmann's family in a pocket of this wine region, they have created Weingut Roterfaden with the mission of "working and producing, not having big dreams." They have been working in their own manner from the first day of operation. Biodynamic farming, reduced yields, native yeasts, old oak, no filtering, and minimal sulfur. They have been pretty stripped down but unified in their processes. A blend of indigenous grapes grown on a sprawling amphitheater of shell limestone soils, this unoaked red is juicy yet pretty structured with notes of red fruit bramble, all spice, black pepper, and earthy character meant for food pairings.

- JOS

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