Christine on this wine: “As you all know, the picking date is one of the most important decisions made by a Winzer*in. I try to find the right balance between fully ripe with abundant aromas (not overripe!) yet crisp acidity. 3 weeks before we started picking the 2020 grapes, I decided to do some trials and pick our Siegerrebe end of August already. Sugar levels were fairly low still, but Sieger is predestined to be eaten by deers and wild boars, wasps, bees… because all the other varieties are not sweet yet. But what’s so interesting about Siegerrebe: it ripens early and the grapes get fully aromatic without having high °Brix! That’s why Nava only has 8,5%vol alcohol while still being dry. I wanted to tickle the best out of these delicious grapes and try out how early we can pick.”
Nava is the old word for Nahe.
Grapes: Siegerrebe (literally “Victory grape”, a rare German cross related to Gewurztraminer which almost disappeared in the Nahe region; interestingly, you can find some plantings in Canada or Belgium)
Making of: hand-picked, foot-stomped, and whole-bunch fermented without any punch downs for 3 weeks, for gentle extraction. The grapes were then pressed and the wine aged in tanks until August. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, no SO2 added.
Personality: lovely orangy-rosé-ish color, bonedry and only 8,0 % ABV! “Honestly at the beginning, it tasted like literally biting into a whole cluster of grapes: some sweetness, some acidity, loud Sieger (Gewürz)-Aroma but also the green stems. But what happened throughout the aging now is crazy: the aroma is absolutely insane! So aromatic! It has some grip and length from gentle skin contact. The very pure taste of the aromatic grapes,” Christine describes.
Nava is the old word for Nahe.
Grapes: Siegerrebe (literally “Victory grape”, a rare German cross related to Gewurztraminer which almost disappeared in the Nahe region; interestingly, you can find some plantings in Canada or Belgium)
Making of: hand-picked, foot-stomped, and whole-bunch fermented without any punch downs for 3 weeks, for gentle extraction. The grapes were then pressed and the wine aged in tanks until August. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, no SO2 added.
Personality: lovely orangy-rosé-ish color, bonedry and only 8,0 % ABV! “Honestly at the beginning, it tasted like literally biting into a whole cluster of grapes: some sweetness, some acidity, loud Sieger (Gewürz)-Aroma but also the green stems. But what happened throughout the aging now is crazy: the aroma is absolutely insane! So aromatic! It has some grip and length from gentle skin contact. The very pure taste of the aromatic grapes,” Christine describes.
