Brand Bros

Brand Bros is the Pfalz natural-wine label of brothers Daniel (b. 1990) and Jonas Brand (b. 1994), fifth generation at the family estate in Bockenheim. They took over from their father Jürgen in 2014 - Jürgen had already been farming without herbicides or pesticides since 1994, so the organic turn was a continuation rather than a break. The estate now stands at around 18 hectares, roughly 12 of which sit on the Sonnenberg hillside above the village. Bockenheim is at the northern edge of the Pfalz, at the start of the Weinstraße, sheltered and cooled by the Donnersberg massif behind it - one of the cooler pockets of the region.

Soils are loam with a significant shell-limestone (Muschelkalk) base, plus loess on the younger plots; the key site is Sonnenberg, with the Klosterschaffnerei parcel - a former tithe barn of ~50-year-old vines - for the Monastery Riesling. The variety set is wide: Riesling, Sylvaner, Weißburgunder, Müller-Thurgau, Pinot Gris, Spätburgunder, Dornfelder, Portugieser, Cabernet Franc - plus field blends of older interplanted material (Wilder Satz). Full organic conversion began in 2015; certified organic from the 2018 harvest. Herbal teas and plant extracts, cover crops of clover and wild herbs, biodynamic leanings without strict ideology. Stages with Lise and Bertrand Jousset in the Loire and Alwin Jurtschitsch in the Kamptal are audible in the style.

The cellar is natural in the full sense: spontaneous ferments, long lees, no fixed bottling schedule, no additives, no filtration, largely zero sulphur on the Pur line. The range is dense and playful - Wilder Satz, Riesling Pur, Pinot Blanc Pur, Sylvaner Elis Pur, Monastery Riesling, Flora, Holy Chapel, Wildrosé - plus a full pét-nat set (Rosé, White, Shake & Wait Orange, Ancestral Orange). Alongside Marto, 2Naturkinder and Enderle&Moll, they are a reference point for the new German natural wave.