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Andi Knauss La Boutanche Rosé

$32.00

4 in stock

Vintage: 2021
Region: Wurttemberg, Germany
Viticulture: Organic
Grape varieties: 100% Trollinger

Andi Knauss La Boutanche Rosé is a fruity but dry pink beauty from Germany. Tart cranberry and Bing cherry flavors intertwined with floral spice and zippy acidity. 100% Trollinger rosé from 6 different vineyards in the village of Strümpfelbach. Primarily saignee from the Trollinger red bottling Andi makes.12-33 years old vines. Native yeast fermented and aged in stainless steel vats before bottling with a small addition of sulfur at bottling.

Song: Rosé by Saint Luna

Additional information

NATTINESS

Super Natty

FRUIT

Citrus, Cranberry, Pomegranate, Red Cherry

BODY

Medium-bodied

ACIDITY

Electric (High)

OAK

No Oak

TANNIN

Light

ALCOHOL

12-13%

SWEETNESS

Fruity & Dry

SERVING TEMP

Chilled Whites and Rosés (48°–52°)

SULFUR

Very Low Sulfur (less than 20g/L)

VEGAN

Vegan

IMPORTER

Selection Massale

4 in stock

ABOUT THE PRODUCER

About Andi Knauss La Boutanche Rosé

Andi Knauss La Boutanche Rosé is a fruity but dry pink beauty from Germany. Tart cranberry and Bing cherry flavors intertwined with floral spice and zippy acidity. 100% Trollinger rosé from 6 different vineyards in the village of Strümpfelbach. Primarily saignee from the Trollinger red Andi makes.12-33 years old vines. Native yeast fermented and aged in stainless steel vats before bottling with a small addition of sulfur at bottling.

About Andi Knauss

Whereas winemaking was a hobby for earlier generations at this domain (a way of winding down after a day’s work at the nearby Mercedes-Benz factory), Andi Knauss has long known he wanted to be a vigneron. After wine school and a stage in Austria (where Andi learned how to work organically in the vineyard, and to care for the soil) he took over the reins at Weingut Knauss in 2004, and in less than 10 years, he has developed one of the most important and exciting estates we know of. The vineyards are worked naturally, and winemaking is careful and conscientious. Natural fermentation and minimal sulfur are the norms throughout the range, and some cuvees see no sulfur at all.

Andi, who is in his early thirties, runs a tight ship, making wine from over a hundred different plots in Strümpfelbach, the village where the winery is located, and a few surrounding villages in the hills around the river Rems. These hills are composed of different types of limestone of different eras, basically layered on top of each other, changing with the altitude, between 300 and 400 meters above sea level. Vineyard land here is expensive, but Andi has slowly built up the estate parcel by parcel, sometimes just a row, selecting the best sites to be blended into the “Selection” and “Reserve” bottlings.