Historically speaking Spätburgunder, the German name for Pinot Noir, has been grown in Germany for hundreds of years, however it wasn't until the last 10-15 that there has been a much larger prominence of German Pinots on the shelves at stores and on wine lists. Traditionally, you could find most of the Pinot Noir grown in Baden but today things have changed. All over German wine regions you can find what is the most prominent red grape in the country! It is believed that global warming has assisted with this move, as some regions where it previously may have seemed too cold for Pinot, are now allowing the grape to thrive. Today's email offer highlights new incoming wines: Sven Enderle's (previously of Enderle & Moll) inaugural solo vintage, the first release of American native Rosalie Curtin's beautiful Mosel reds, and two wines from Weingut Thörle in the Rheinhessen, where two brothers are making some serious Pinot! 

Sven Enderle needs no introduction as a German winemaker. However, his new solo project is new to the U.S. Sven was here in New York just a few weeks ago and his first vintage release of ‘Sven Enderle’ are fantastic! 
Chambers Street Wines was one of the first retailers to highlight his initial project when Enderle & Moll first started out, so Sven’s wines are no stranger to the store here, as well as Sven who stopped by to say hello while he was in town. As of right now the project is all negociant, but Sven is only purchasing grapes from those with similar philosophy as him, organically grown with minimal inputs. His winemaking philosophy is fairly simple as there are no pump overs, no additives, just him sourcing the best possible grapes and letting them shine. The vinification is the same across the board, with 100% whole cluster fermentation in 800 liter boxes mashed by foot. Aging is in oak for 15 months before bottling with no fining or filtration, with minimal sulfur at bottling. The barrels range from 225-600L from France, Austria, and Italy. The result are some truly beautiful, expressive wines! Today we are offering his "entry" Pinot Noir sourced from all over Baden alongside his Pinot Noir Keuper, sourced from vines planted only on Keuper soils. 

Some notes on Rosalie Curtin from our friend Stephen at Vom Boden: "In the summer of 2022 Rosalie Curtin came to the Mosel, with a few others, to spend maybe a few months helping Lardot and Stein in the vineyards. She had come to this place after stints in Oregon (with Jess Miller and Maloof among others) and with Frenchtown Farms in the Sierra Foothills. While the foothills were beautiful, Curtin felt like it was crazy, at her age and without anything really tying herself down, to not travel to Europe to work there, to learn there. Riesling had always been somewhere in her brain, and in fact she came to a “Rieslingstudy” in Chicago in the winter of 2021… only a few weeks after that, Lardot posted that he was looking for help and that was that. The decision was made.
For Curtin, Lardot’s wines were something of a revelation - the cliché of the Mosel producing only sweet Riesling is still dominant. Yet Lardot shapes a different expression of the Mosel, following the precedents of Stein, Thorsten Melsheimer and Rita and Rudolf Trossen among others: dry wines, with longer élevages, malolactic conversions, lees aging and no filtering. The wines, in many ways, speak more to the Jura or Chablis than to what people often expect from the Mosel.