Wasenhaus - 2022 Weissburgunder, ‘Bellen’

German natives Christoph Wolber and Alexander Götze met in Burgundy while working at top organic and biodynamic domaines (Alex at Pierre Morey and de Montille, and Christoph at Leflaive, Bernhard van Berg, Domaine de la Vougeraie and Comte Armand) and returned to Germany in 2018 to start their Baden-based wine project, Wasenhaus. Organic and biodynamic farming is employed in all the vineyards they manage for others and those they own themselves, and growers in vineyards they rent and/or buy from are encouraged to follow the same principles. Similar to Alsace, though not as dramatic in geological changes, their region is a patchwork of different rock types from granite, volcanic, and limestone with löess topsoil commonly present. All the grapes are hand harvested, and the wines are naturally fermented (some partially carbonic) with minimal intervention, stem inclusion on the reds. Both red and white wines are aged in old French oak barrels, and neither are unfined nor unfiltered.