AdamsWein, Spatburgunder Ingelheim, 2022, 750ml
Description
Simone is a young winemaker with a husband and two small children, running a 10ha farm she took over when her dad passed away in 2010. Her vineyards all lie in Ingelheim in the far northern Rheinhessen where a mix of flat and gently rolling vineyards of clay and limestone enjoy a cool microclimate tempered by the Rhein river, just 5km away. The village sits in the “knee” of the valley, protected from rain and inclement weather. Interestingly, the vineyards are on east-west facing slopes, not north-south ones, which benefits air circulation.
The winemaking is simple and patterned after traditional Burgundy: natural fermentations in steel, maturation in big barrels for the village wines and barriques for the single site ones, 12-18 months of aging on the lees, no fining, no filtering, and only a modest dose of SO2 added at bottling. There is no gutswein here, only wines of terroir.
100% Pinot Noir from mixed German clones grown about 5km south of the Rhein on a mix of limestone and clay with a small % of sandy soil. 30% whole cluster and 70% destemmed, vinified in large oak, bottled unfiltered and unfined at low SO2. Deeply saturated color with a glorious nose of cherry fruit and light notes of pekoe and dark berries. The finishing tannins are prevalent now but promise an incredible evolution. This is village-level Pinot at a VERY high level.