Bertram-Baltes
Ahr | Dernau
For more than a century, Julia Bertram’s family has grown and made wine in the tiny, marginal Ahr Valley. When Julia took over the estate in 2017, she directed her focus first toward the cherished old family sites, where she organically farms a total of 6.8 hectares of precipitous slopes all planted to Spätburgunder (pinot noir, in German). “What makes our wines unique,” Julia explains, “is the combination of slate and Spätburgunder in such a northerly region.” Across the board, Julia’s wines impress with their slender elegance, their arresting coolness and clarity, and above all a precisely mapped sense of place.


Bertram-Baltes 2021 Forstberg Spätburgunder
The Forstberg Spätburgunder is a Lagenwein, which means that the grapes are from the best parcels out of the single vineyard site Ahrweiler Forstberg. The vines are more than 40 years old, some of them from a local Spätburgunder cline called “Stuber”.
- 2021
- Pinot Noir
- Germany
- Ahr
- Biodynamic
- Forstberg
- loamy soil with greywacke and slate, loess, loess loam
- 18 months in 600 liter barrel of german oak, no racking, no finings
- hand picked, destemmed and afterwards 4 days cold maceration, spontaneous fermentation in open mash tanks
- 1,1
- 750 ml
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