2024 Jonas Dostert 'Frost' Chardonnay, Mosel, Germany Land of Saints Spontaneous fermentation in 25hl barrel

Spontaneous fermentation in 25hl barrel of Slavonian oak

The 2022 vintage was raised in barrel

Inspired by the white wines of the Jura and Savoie regions of the French Alps

Justin vinifies his wines in a sphere-shaped fiberglass tank that you turn on its axis as opposed to using a pump-over method

one of the top grosse lagen (grand cru’s) of the “Roter Hang” (a 5km stretch of steep vineyards along the Rhine river composed of iron-rich

2024 Jonas Dostert 'Frost' Chardonnay, Mosel, Germany Land of Saints Spontaneous fermentation in 25hl barrelJonas says the Chardonnay was hard to manage with the frosts. He writes: "Chardonnay and frost. Year after year, Chardonnay is in more of a hurry than the other varieties. There's a full week between Chardonnay's bud break and that of my other varieties. Its susceptibility to frost is therefore already higher." There are two results. The first, obviously enough, is that there is very little to go around. The second, less obviously (though if you know