Andreas Tscheppe Green Dragonfly Plus 2024 750ML

During the harvest of 2021, a tempest with heavy rain and a significant temperature drop came when the wines were fermenting in Andreas’s new cellar which wasn’t completely finished back then. As a result, the fermentation stopped its usual pace and became very slow instead. As a solution, Andreas bottled the wine with the remaining residual sugar under crown caps, to let them finish the fermentation in the bottle and develop a bit of fizz. To distinguish this “cellar calamity edition” from the “regular” Green Dragonfly (Grune Libelle) cuvée made in other vintages, the word “plus” is stated on the back label.

Age of Vines: planted in 2006

Soil: limestone/opok. Estate-owned, farmed organically by Andreas himself

Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc

Vinification Method: Grapes are hand harvested and destemmed. The grapes are pressed to old big barrels where they fermented spontaneously. As the fermentation stopped due to weather damage and severe temperature drop in the cellar, the wine was finally bottled in March 2023 with the remaining RS under crown cap, to finish the fermentation there. Unfined and unfiltered, 5ppm sulfur added at bottling.

Personality: creamy, lush with a touch of the Sauvignon aromatics and a nice little fizz. Fresh and bright thanks to good balance of sugar and naturally high acidity, courtesy of Andreas’s top-notch, empathetic farming.

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