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. The “Grand Ordinaire” is a 100% Spätburgunder, 100% whole-bunch, and 100% carbonic maceration wine. Fermented as whole clusters, completely without any extraction, pressed off and finished fermentation. It aged for six months in big used barrels. This was bottled without any sulfur. It may be a bit cloudy – that’s ok. This is a joyous, vivid wine to ponder in youth – the wine’s youth. You can be however old you are, it’s all good.

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. A Chardonnay from a steep, barren single site on limestone and loess in Baden, so difficult that it is worked entirely by hand. The wine is cool and reserved, with salinity, chalk dust and oyster shell over fresh ripe lemon, a touch of yellow apple, hay and meadow herbs. The palate is straight and taut with lively acidity and a firm, tight-knit texture.