Anders Frederik Steen Like Pearls On A String 2022
£28.40 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Style
Occasions
Winery
Size
Appellation
Alcohol
13.8%
Grapes
Garnacha, Garnacha Blanca, Viognier, Syrah, Petit Syrah, Sauvignon Blanc
Serving
Between 14ºC and 16ºC
Winemaking
All the varieties are infused together in Sauvignon Blanc juice for 1 month. Fermented and aged for 3 years in old foudres and demi-muids.
Description
Anders Frederik Steen Like Pearls On A String and Anne Bruun Blauert do not make wine to fit into a particular category, but to capture a moment. Based in Valvignères, in the Ardèche, they arrived there after a previous life far removed from traditional viticulture, and it is precisely that freedom that has allowed them to work without dogma. Like Pearls On A String was born from a vintage marked by a devastating storm that left barely a quarter of the harvest intact. Rather than giving up or trying to salvage the year, they decided to embrace it: gathering what remained and turning it into a field blend as unlikely as it is exciting. Viognier, Garnacha Blanca, Garnacha Negra, Syrah, Petit Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc make up this wine, born of intuition, attentiveness and a very direct connection with the land.
The southern Ardèche, with its warm climate, Mediterranean light and clay-limestone soils, lends this wine a unique blend of breadth, energy and earthy depth. Here, there is no polished or academic expression, but rather a truth of the landscape, of a vineyard lived through and of a vintage embraced.
Winemaking
The winemaking process for Anders Frederik Steen’s ‘Like Pearls On A String’ has a distinctly artisanal feel to it. The grapes were destemmed by hand and the different varieties were left to infuse for nearly a month in the fermenting must of the Sauvignon Blanc. Even at this stage, it is clear that this is no conventional wine. After pressing, the wine began a long ageing process lasting three years, first in large oak casks and then in demi-muids, always seeking breath, texture and complexity, never merely a veneer of oak. The bottling preserves intact this philosophy of minimal intervention and maximum sensitivity to the character of the vintage.
Taste
On the nose, Anders Frederik Steen’s ‘Like Pearls On A String’ reveals ripe, almost stewed red fruit, alongside fresh fig, bitter orange peel, cedar and dried herbs. Nothing is exuberant; everything seems enveloped in a deep, serene, spicy haze. On the palate, it is full-bodied and juicy, with an almost tactile texture, yet underpinned by a vibrancy that stretches and tightens it. There is a subtle, noble oxidative nuance that adds layers and salinity. It is a free-spirited, complex, Mediterranean and wild wine, designed more to stir the emotions than to simply please.
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