Region
Germany › Baden › Qualitätswein
Type
rose · still
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Bottled
2023-07-12
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Tasting Notes(1)
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Malterdinger Rosé is the pink member of Huber's village tier, a VDP.Ortswein alongside the Malterdinger Rot and Weiss, made from Spätburgunder grown around Malterdingen on weathered shell limestone (Muschelkalkverwitterung). The VDP member page lists the estate at 35.3 ha, 70% Spätburgunder, currently in organic conversion and Fair Choice certified for sustainability.
The cellar detail comes from German merchant sheets (Lobenberg, Weinzentrale, grosse-lage.de): spontaneously fermented and raised in used barriques. This bottling was filled on 12 July 2023, about 21 months after harvest. According to wein.plus, long storage on the fine lees is the house rule.
2021 was a hard year in Baden. The VDP's harvest review records local late frosts after budbreak, a wet spring and summer that kept crews busy in the canopy, and cooler summer nights that slowed ripening and pushed the harvest slightly later than in recent years. The crop was roughly 40-60% of the previous years, with the young wines described there as fresh, precise and clearly defined.
