2023 Dautel Estate Spätburgunder, Wurttemberg, GermanyABOUT THIS WINE Dautel Estate employs traditional winemaking techniques, focusing on hand harvested grapes and careful fermentation. The use of oak aging helps to enhance the wines structure while preserving the expressive fruit character. This wine is aged for 11 months in used 2500L barrels. The vineyards benefit from Wrttemberg's varied soils, which contribute to the depth and complexity of the Sptburgunder. Christian Dautels approach emphasizes

and a difficult year for all of the growers in the eastern half of the Roussillon

The philosophy at the estate focuses on careful vineyard management

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but never flimsy

it’s known as the location of Federico Biondi Santi’s first monovarietal plantings of Sangiovese in the 1870s

Nikolaihof is the only winery to bottle this site on it’s own

The Heucq family began bottling its own champagne as early as 1936

on the border with Hungary

The Forlorn Hope estate wines are honest and pure representations of site and variety

We also limit our yields (around 40 hl/ha) through natural practices such as disbudding

Then aged 48 months on the lees

Since Louis has taken over the winemaking there have been some changes