Appellation: Landwein der Mosel
Cuvée: Little Red Riding Wolf
Colour: Red
Grapes: Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)
About: A typically minerally Pinot from clay limestone which produces fullness and grey slate which produces tension and freshness.
Vines
Location, parcels: from two vineyards near Kröv
Size ha: 1
Age: 30 years old
Soils: one vineyard clay-limestone for fullness, the other grey slate for tension and freshness
Exposition: south
Altitude m: 140
Training: on wire
Farming and philosophy: certified Organic, mostly worked by hand
Average yield hl/ha: 50
Climate: cool (but changing)
Winemaking
Picked by hand. De-stemmed, then fermented using natural yeasts in open stainless steel tanks with 4 weeks on skins, then aged in 40 year old 4000L foudres and 500L old French barrels for 18 months. Bottled unfiltered, unfined.
Vintage Notes 2017
Yield hl/ha: 50
Harvested: End September
Bottles produced: 2,500
Date bottled: 2018-10-29
Alcohol %: 12
SO2 Total: 0 added
Vintage Notes 2018
The weather: hot and dry year.
Yield hl/ha: 50
Harvested: End September
Bottles produced: 4,000
Date bottled: 2019-09-06
Alcohol %: 12
SO2 Total: 0 added
Tasting: lovely nutty, raspberry and peppery fruit, fresh, cool, supple.
Vintage Notes 2019
Very hot and dry summer which caused sunburn, acids a bit higher than 2018 (which was also hot and dry) but some timely rain in august boosted acids.
Yield hl/ha: 60
Harvested: End September
Bottles produced: 4,000
Date bottled: 2019-09-06
Alcohol %: 12
SO2 Total: 0 added
Tasting: lovely nutty, raspberry and peppery fruit, fresh, cool, supple.
Vintage Notes 2020
The weather: dry and hot season until mid september, then cold and a bit rainy, mid to end of September giving some juice to the grapes.
Yield hl/ha: 50
Harvested: mid to end September
Bottles produced: 4,000
Date bottled: 2021-07
Alcohol %: 12
SO2 Total: 0 added
Tasting: nutty, hazelnut, walnut and raspberry and red cherry aromas, then soft and fresh on the palate, lively, smooth, fine, elegant, finish is pure and fresh
Vintage Notes 2021
The weather: cool and rainy season, lots of problems with downy mildew and black rot, compare yield with other years, had to buy quite a lot of fruit from other organic producers that were less affected. Still not the flood disaster of neighbouring regions. The Pinot yield was pitiful so Jan turned left and bought in fruit, Blaufränkisch, all the way from the great Franz Wenninger in Austria. Just 20% in barrel, rest in inox. Trucked all the way from Burgenland in 48h from the harvest.
Yield hl/ha: 60 (was a great yield in Austria)
Harvested: end September
Bottles produced: 4000
Date bottled: 2022-04
Alcohol %: 11,5
SO2 Total: 0 added
Tasting: not like a Jan wine but it’s delicious: dark mineral, cassis, date, blackberry, nuts, hazelnut, black pepper, quite Pinot-esque yet there’s more density, more black fruit and spice character, soft and gentle tannins.