Cellar

Harvest

handpicked

Grape Sorting

manual

Sulfur Added

yes

Mazeration

whole bunch pressing | 3 hour(s) | in the press

Fermentation

spontaneous with pied de cuve

steel tank

bottle

Disgorgement

cold | manual

Storage Time: 9 months

Riddling

manual

Sulfur Added

yes | 15 mg

Maturing

bottle | 9 - 12 month(s)

Certification

Yes

Data

Wine Type

Sparkling wine | rose | dry

Certificates

organic

Allergens

sulfites

Drinking Temperature

8 - 10 °C

Aging Potential

medium

Optimum Drinking Year

2023 - 2026

Wine Description

light rosé color, delicate fruity notes, cherry, brioche, lively perlage, tight finish, fruity reverberation

Winery

Experience in making wine for more than a century, the excellent soil in Langenlois and various established varieties characterize our family-owned winery. Passionatly we expend a lot of effort every year to finish our wines with a personal touch, which is important to us. Working in line with nature out in the vineyards is self-evident for us. This is why we have pursued sustainable wine growing throughout decades and we had our estate certified organic in 2010.

Vineyard

Crisp grapes with fresh acidity are gently pressed as whole bunches and result in an elegant fermenting wine. This wine is bottled directly from the fermenting tank during the first fermentation and with the wild yeasts. Those will ferment the natural sugar from the grapes, without any additives. After storing on the lees for about a year, a large part of the yeast was removed during disgorging, where a little sulfur is added, but no sugar liqueur – Rosé Ancestral is therefore brut nature.

The technique of creating sparkling wine from first fermentation is also known as méthode ancestrale. A method that was used to create sparkling wines long before the triumph of champagne. After an experimental period of 4 years, we released our first sparkling wine of this type with the 2016 vintage. Often these wines are also titled as Pétillant naturel or PetNat for short. An artisanal bubbly, made purely from grapes.