Pinot Rosé Brut Nature – 2023

Organic Sekt – Pinot Rosé Brut 2023 – Andres & Mugler

The Organic Sekt Pinot Rosé Brut 2023 offers sparkling enjoyment and is a great introduction to the world of pleasure from the sparkling wine manufacturer Andres & Mugler from the Palatinate region. This finely sparkling organic Sekt from Germany is made from organically grown Pinot Noir grapes. It shimmers in a delicate rosé hue and smells of red apple and red berries, such as ripe blackberries, raspberries, and currants, with subtle biscuit notes completing the aroma. On the palate, the organic rosé Sekt shows sparkling lightness, juicy and playful, with an elegant structure. The finely spiced, red-fruited Andres & Mugler Pinot Rosé Sekt is produced using traditional bottle fermentation.

The refined, elegant Pinot Rosé Brut makes us dream of summer and is ideal not only as an aperitif to welcome your guests, but also accompanies light appetizers, colorful leafy salads, and delicate dishes with salmon or green asparagus.

Pinot Rosé Brut – Inner Values

• 12.5% vol alcohol
• 8.2 g/l acidity
• 2.9 g/l residual sugar

How the Pinot Rosé Brut is Made

The Pinot Noir grapes for this Andres Mugler organic Sekt grow on mineral soils in the Palatinate, in Ruppertsberg, Deidesheim, and Maikammer. The cool winds from the nearby Palatinate Forest ensure a good acid structure in the early-harvested base wines, which is essential for good Sekt.

The quality philosophy of the Andres Mugler Sekt manufactory begins with careful soil cultivation and consistent greening. The vineyard work of Michael Andres and Steffen Mugler is pure craftsmanship and characterized by a great love for biodynamics. The rhythm of nature significantly determines their actions. For both, healthy soil, intact flora and fauna, and thus vigorous vines are prerequisites for a healthy circular economy. Therefore, they hand-harvest all biodynamically cultivated vineyards to bring the grapes undamaged to the Sekt estate in Ruppertsheim.

Here, the red grapes are first left on the mash so that they can release their beautiful red color into the must and are then gently pressed. Only about two-thirds of the juice present in the berries is pressed.

In the cellar, Steffen Mugler and Michael Andres give their Sekts time. The grapes are allowed to ferment slowly and undergo malolactic fermentation, in which the malic acid in the wine is converted into milder lactic acid, which gives the base wine a special mouthfeel and creaminess.

The following year, the Pinot Rosé is bottled and tirage is added to initiate the second fermentation in the bottle. The dosage was between 3 and 5g/l. Now it is allowed to rest and mature on the fine lees for another year, it is regularly riddled and the bottles are increasingly turned upside down, until at the very end, during disgorgement by hand, the yeast plug is removed from the bottle and the Andres Mugler Organic Sekt Pinot Rosé Brut rests in the bottle for as long as it takes "until it's good when it comes out," as Steffen emphasizes.

Andres & Mugler – The Sekt Makers

The Sekt manufactory Andres & Mugler in Ruppertsberg was founded in 1989 by two friends and Palatinate winemakers, Michael Andres and Steffen Mugler. In the early years, base wines were purchased and made into Sekt, but since 1993, only grapes from their own cultivation have been processed into Sekt. On a total of 17 hectares (7 hectares with Michael and 10 hectares with Steffen), the Sekt estate practices biodynamic viticulture, cultivating Riesling and white Burgundy varieties such as Pinot Blanc, Auxerrois, and Chardonnay, as well as Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir in the best vineyards of the Palatinate. These grapes are used to produce German Sekt with a distinctive, elegant style using traditional bottle fermentation. Sparkling wine from Germany at the highest level and in organic quality. In 2019, two Sekts were rated as very good for the first time at the Meininger Deutscher Sektpreis, and in 2021, Eichelmann Deutschlands Weine awarded them as the best Sekt collection of 2021. All credit to them. The Sekt estate Andres & Mugler is a member of "die Sektmacher," the association of traditional Sekt producers.

Organic control body DE-ÖKO-039 – German Agriculture