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.