The grapes are cooled with dry ice and then a cold maceration starts. Fermented in steel, then aging in barriques. Very concentrated aroma, nice red fruit, sweet cherry, sloe, raspberry, a bit smoky, dark flint. All wines at Stodden are 100% destemmed. Stodden is always fermented spontaneously. In addition to the classic, it will also be a bit more blue-fruity, blueberry, violet, highly concentrated. Spicy, stony-earthy mouth with great dynamics, wonderful play of acidity with the delicate extract sweetness. Ingenious acidity under the concentrated red fruit, juicy, vibrant. On the pallet more wonderfully sweet wild cherry and chalky tannins. If you didn't know that the wine grows on slate, you would almost assume a little limestone, also because of this brilliant sour cherry fruit with the ingenious freshness. Concentrated and dense, but because of the juiciness and freshness it seems downright cool, polished, incredibly focused, just straight ahead, but so fine and mature. Always fresh and classy with all its power, that is simply this ingenious typicality of the vintage. Even slightly Burgundian traits, which is rather untypical for the slate Ahr. An intoxicatingly beautiful wine. The superfine handwriting of Alexander Stodden comes through.