Handicraft Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr, Germany

Handwerk Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr . Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes are top talents! Handwerk Spätburgunder is their basic red wine and already bizarrely good. Delicious forest fruit, earthiness, laurel, fine acids, top balance.
Hamersma gives this wine a 9-. Pure finesse, elegance and pleasure. This is how Spätburgunder should be! German red wine from the Ahr of 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 couple is simply unstoppable. They make breathtakingly beautiful, characterful and pure Spätburgunders from steep vineyards along the Ahr. They have vines in the best 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 starter of Bertram-Baltes. The grapes come from younger vines from the Lagen Hardtberg and Pfarrwingert near Dernau . Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes make wines that express the unique terroirs with mainly slate well. They therefore pay a lot of attention to the vineyard. In the cellar they do as little as possible. Read an article from Proefschrift about this interesting winery here.

Natural wine

Handwerk Spätburgunder is a beautiful red wine. This is all 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 money. Spontaneous fermentation, maturation on large wood, unfiltered and unclarified in the bottle, in fact natural wine . Organic since 2020.

Handicraft Spätburgunder, Bertram-Baltes, Ahr, Germany