Handicraft Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr, Germany

Handwerk Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr . Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes are top talents! Handwerk Spätburgunder is their base red wine and already incredibly good. Delicious forest fruit, earthiness, laurel, fine acidity, and superb balance.
Hamersma gives this wine a 9-. Pure finesse, elegance, and pleasure. This is how Spätburgunder should be! German red wine from the Ahr region, made with Pinot Noir.

• Serving: 14 ° C
• Drink: now until 2029

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Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes were independently rising stars on the German and international wine scene. Together, this winemaking duo is simply unstoppable. They craft breathtakingly beautiful, characterful, and pure Spätburgunders from steep vineyards along the Ahr River. They have vines in the finest Lagen (Grosses Gewächs and Erste Lage level) such as Goldkaul, Hardtberg, Rosenthal, Pfarrwingert, Trotzenberg, and Mönchberg.

Charming loafer from Bertram-Baltes

The Handwerk Spätburgunder is the charming entry-level wine from Bertram-Baltes. The grapes come from younger vines in the Lagen Hardtberg and Pfarrwingert vineyards near Dernau . Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes make wines that truly express their unique terroirs, primarily slate. They therefore devote considerable attention to the vineyard, while maintaining minimal cellar duties. Read an article from Proefschrift about this fascinating winery here.

Natural wine

Handwerk Spätburgunder is a beautiful red wine. This wine is pure finesse, balance, and elegance. And this is just the basic wine. Not the cheapest, but perhaps the best Ahr wine you can buy for this price. Spontaneous fermentation, aged in large oak barrels, unfiltered and unfined in the bottle—essentially a natural wine . Organic since 2020.

Handicraft Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr, Germany