{"product_id":"pinot-noir-rose-rose-de-noir-2025","title":"Pinot Noir Rosé 'Rosé de Noir' 2025","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHusband-and-wife team of Hans-Bert and Silke Wolf are making inspired, delicate and polished Pinot Noirs in a region dominated by heavy, cumbersome, oak-and-alcohol-laden Pinot Noirs that taste, well, often not so much like Pinot Noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat’s most relevant is the scale, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ehuman scale,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof this operation. In a region overrun by mega-sized, agriculture\/industrial cooperatives, Hans-Bert and Silke farm their own few hectares of vines with great care, making only a little bit of wine, with great care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut ignoring the cooperatives for a moment, if you’ve heard anything about “quality” German Pinot Noir and Baden as a whole, you’ve likely heard someone say “Kaiserstuhl.” This region in Baden – a collection of volcanic hills toward the south – is where the “famous” German Pinots have come from, at least in the last few decades. It’s a hot place, and twenty years ago this factor was probably important for ripening. Not so much anymore, let’s just say that. Although the region is trying to redefine itself, for many the “Kaiserstuhl” has become synonymous with over-oaked, unbalanced and high-alcohol Pinot Noir – as if success for German red wine would be achieving the international plushness of Merlot grown in Portugal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vineyards of Hans-Bert and Silke are north of the Kaiserstuhl. To be fair, they’re only about a half-hour north. But a lot changes in those thirty-or-so minutes. First, you have a much cooler microclimate, with the Black Forest cooling down the area. Second, the volcanic soils of the Kaiserstuhl give way to limestone and loess. You can likely see where this is going: Pinot Noirs with lower alcohols and higher acidities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Vom Boden\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelter Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45561161449525,"sku":"SHELTERrose25","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/domestiquewine.com\/products\/pinot-noir-rose-rose-de-noir-2025","provider":"Domestique Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}