Weinschwärmer 2023

Name: Weinschwärmer 2023
Brand: 2Naturkinder
SKU: 2naturkinder-weinschwarmerfranken-2023-11.5%-750ml
Price: 68.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$68.00

Franconia, Germany · Skin Contact Wine · Light Bodied

Weinschwärmer takes its name from the hawk moth that lives among the vines, one more creature from a range full of them. It is a blend of two neighbours, Grauburgunder and Riesling, grown side by side on limestone by the winery. The Grauburgunder is destemmed and left on its blue-pink skins for about ten days, which gives the wine its reddish, textural cast and its ripe fruit. The Riesling is pressed directly, with no time on skins at all, and drops in with the razor-sharp acidity the grape is known for, roughly a quarter to a third of the blend. Michael Völker and Melanie Drese make it at Kitzingen in Franconia, organic, unfiltered, no sulphur added. Peach and orchard fruit over a chalky saline grip, with a frisky, faintly spritzy energy. Franken in a glass, and best drunk without overthinking it.

Pairing Suggestions

Pour it when the afternoon is long and the food keeps arriving.
Laksa, or nasi lemak with a spoonful of sambal.
Thai green curry, or a spread of mezze.

About 2NaturKinder

Michael Völker and Melanie Drese came back to Kitzingen in Franconia in 2013 to take on the winery Michael's father had built, and the vines he had already converted to organic farming in the 1990s. They began small, a few hundred bottles from two parcels, and have kept both the scale and the intent intact ever since.

Franconia is not the loudest of German regions, which suits them. What sets 2Naturkinder apart is how far the farming reaches beyond the vine: Michael works with local bat expert Christian Söder to keep colonies in the vineyard, putting up bat boxes among the rows, returning their guano to the soil as fertiliser, and giving a share of every bottle to the Landesbund für Vogelschutz. The creatures that share the land end up in the names on the labels.

In the cellar the approach is simple and unwavering. Everything is bottled without filtration and without added sulphur, including their BRUTAL!!!, which was the first official German one. Expect wines that are bright, unpolished and genuinely alive, from crunchy Meunier to skin-contact Riesling and field-blend whites.

Photos taken by Daniel Koh

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