2020 Anders Frederick Steen Tout ce qui est beau revient (500ml)

WINEMAKER: Anders Frederik Steen & Anne Bruun Blauert 
REGION: Ardèche, FR
VARIETY: Gewürztraminer
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic

"A wine made of rich and very aromatic Gewürztraminer at harvest time with a beautiful noble rot. We made a direct press of the grapes same day as we harvested them to be able to extract as much of these flavors as possible.

After a few days of oxidation, the juice went into fiberglass cuves to ferment over winter. After a soutirage in the spring of 2021, time just enough to add these yeasty and autolytic flavors that we love so much, the wine went into the cellar where it finished its fermentation and stayed another 3 ½ years in old barrels without topping up.

Gewürztraminer is in general moving slow when it comes to the development of flavors, and it took close to two years of élevage, before the oxidation started to make its mark. But as it always goes with aromatic varieties like Gewürztraminer, once the oxidation arrives, the oxidation takes its place and create together with the other aromas a beautiful balance." - Anders Frederik Steen

Former chef, once sommelier at Noma, Anders started making wine in 2013 alongside legendary Jura winemaker, Jean-Marc Brignot. Now settled in the village of Valvignères in the Ardèche, his wines are truly unique and highly sought-after across the world. Grapes and only grapes, no adds, no sulphur. Tiny quantities.