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CELLAR ACCESS - MARCH!!
This March, it’s all about gratitude. We at Thatcher’s are grateful for the lovely weather, which allows us to get the wine to you more quickly without the pesky chills preventing us from shipping. We are grateful for longer days and more sunshine to enjoy. And of course, we’re grateful for you and your continuous support.
With that in mind, we have selected an exciting assortment of Spring wines, it is the coming of Spring after all. Germany has long been on our minds and palates, and we love the diversity now coming from that country. So, we put together two wines, a truly classic Riesling producer and a flag-bearer for the “new Germany” to highlight that dichotomy of styles. We round out our selection with a classic Barbera from one of our favorite direct imports, Rosanna Sandri, because a juicy fresh red is just what the doctor ordered for the coming of the warm season.
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This wine has a per person limit. We do this as the wine is hard to find, very rare and/or incredibly sought after.
We do this to ensure that we are able to share the love with everyone!
We kindly ask that you do not abuse this limit by placing multiple orders. In the event that you place multiple orders - they will be canceled and subject to a 5% cancellation fee.
If you would like to request more than the allowable amount - we may be able to help - send us an email at info@thatcherswineconsulting.com
2021 Bastian Beny, Cuvee Weiss, Landwein
2021 Bastian Beny, Cuvee Weiss, Landwein
Cuvée Weiss is mash-fermented Müller-Thurgau, Riesling and Pinot Blanc fermented naturally in a mix of stainless steel and oak. Aged for 10 months in used barrel on its lees and bottled without filtering or fining. The lees-y quality provides backbone and density to the natural lift and orchard fruit of the Riesling, while Pinot Blanc provides citrusy fruits, and there is ample textural grip that opens up to even more lush texture.
Bastian Beny is heading a revolution in the Rheinhessen, having inherited conventionally-farmed vineyards that he has decided to rework in the ways of biodynamics. His vineyards flourish with life, both flora and fauna and the resulting wines are both full of exciting tension and packing ample weight & concentration of flavor.
Bastian Beny
There is nothing technologically-advanced about Beny's winery. Goats and other creatures roam the vineyards, the rows blossoming and crawling with all the right kinds of insects that create exciting and vibrant biodiversity. All of these things are designed - and have proven - to amplify the resulting energy in his wines, and to allow the grapes to naturally create what they should.
By virtue of hand-harvesting, small-lot fermentations and extended time on the lees, Bastian has found the balance necessary to complete his wines without any chemicals or filtrations. The wines have a natural density as a result, and are full of character and a bright streak of acidity.
Bastian will play with both Pet-Nats and a Champenois-method sparkling wine, and craft unfiltered, naturally-fermented still whites of Müller-Thurgau, Sylvaner and Pinot Blanc.
Bay Area
Available same day if ordered by 2pm
25811 Clawiter Road
Hayward CA 94545
United States
+14152340046
This wine has a per person limit. We do this as the wine is hard to find, very rare and/or incredibly sought after.
We do this to ensure that we are able to share the love with everyone!
We kindly ask that you do not abuse this limit by placing multiple orders. In the event that you place multiple orders - they will be canceled and subject to a 5% cancellation fee.
If you would like to request more than the allowable amount - we may be able to help - send us an email at info@thatcherswineconsulting.com
2018 Schafer-Frohlich, Felseneck Riesling GG, Nahe
2018 Schafer-Frohlich, Felseneck Riesling GG, Nahe
Felseneck is always quite compelling, the soils comprised of blue Devonian slate, basalt and quartz. Frohlich will often produce his best off-dry & sweet wines from this vineyard, but the GG is stunning - truly almost weightless yet complex, crystalline in its minerality, with white citrus and floral notes as well. One to hold!
The classic story - a 2-century old family vineyard finally finds the right hands in the 9th generation. Tim Fröhlich made his first vintage in 1995 and has since been held as one of the greatest winemaking talents in Germany, regularly creating wines of both density and energy.
Schafer-Frohlich
The Nahe is home to some famous German estates but Schafer-Fröhlich is tops among them, counting among their 21 hectares of vines the famous Felseneck, Kupfergrube and Felsenberg. As with so many classic German estates, the slopes of these vineyards are so intense that everything must be harvested by hand, resulting in a rigorous selection process of tiny grapes that intensify the flavors and quality of his six GG wines.
Since he ascended to the winemaking seat in 1995, Tim made some smart trades and acquisitions of land, increasing his family's holdings to include a fine palate of vineyard and soil types; Felseneck's quartzite soils provide an elegant, defined wine. Felsenberg and Kupfergrube have volcanic influences, providing richness and more spiced mineral tones; Halenberg's blue slate and Frühlingsplätzchen's red slate offer unique, more crystalline qualities, in their own right top Grand Crus of the Nahe.
Tim's strengths are clear in poor or hot vintages, as he is quite adept in managing his vineyard to weather the varied storms; his wines are consistently stunning in quality, be they of rainy vintages like 2014 or hot as in 2018. Without a doubt, some of Germany's best wines come from this estate every single year.
This wine has a per person limit. We do this as the wine is hard to find, very rare and/or incredibly sought after.
We do this to ensure that we are able to share the love with everyone!
We kindly ask that you do not abuse this limit by placing multiple orders. In the event that you place multiple orders - they will be canceled and subject to a 5% cancellation fee.
If you would like to request more than the allowable amount - we may be able to help - send us an email at info@thatcherswineconsulting.com
2022 Rosanna Sandri, Barbera d'Alba, Baccara
2022 Rosanna Sandri, Barbera d'Alba, Baccara
THE VINEYARD San Rocco Seno d’Elvio - West-South-West exposure at 250m altitude. Thinned twice throughout growing season - no more than 1kg fruit per vine.
VINE AGE 15 years
SOIL Calcareous soil with marls and sandstone; soil is alkaline with iron and magnesium oxide present.
FERMENTATION Crushed and fermented in small concrete tanks. Macerated 40-45 days with submerged cap.
AGING Aged in concrete for 6 months prior to bottling.
BOTTLES PRODUCED 3000
Roberto & Mauro Prandi oversee the direction of their mother's eponymous winery, Rosanna Sandri. Owing to generations of hands-on work in the vineyards, the brothers imbue their work with knowledge gleaned as the first of their family to attend enological school. Those lessons served to hone their understanding of the special vineyards of the estate, further cementing the tradition of promoting sustainability, biodiversity and low-intervention in the winery.
Rosanna Sandri
In Treiso, Piedmont Rosanna Sandri is the matriarch of a longtime family vineyard. Dating back to her parents, Mario and Teresina, who planted the vineyards in 1950, to Rosanna's sons, Mauro and Roberto, the vineyard has always been in the Sandris' care. With Rosanna's innate wisdom from her life's work in the vineyards alongside her parents, Mauro and Roberto's education at Alba Enological School intertwines to create a perfect blend of tradition with an eye to sustainability for the future.
The first vineyards of the Sandri family were planted in San Rocco Seno d’Elvio, nearby the village of Barbaresco. By the time Rosanna married her husband Franco in 1978, the vineyards totaled 2.5 hectares. Though it was by necessity in the early years due to the lean post-war years, today the family still embraces a very minimalistic mindset in both the vineyards and winery; there are no chemical additions at all, embracing biodiversity in the vineyards, eschewing the use of tractors and other mechanical tools, and allowing the wines to be fermented with native yeasts. Vinifications will occur in concrete vats without temperature control, and aging done in large wood tanks.
By the early 2000s the family had added another 1.5 hectares to the fold, maintaining the family's ideals of biodiversity, interplanting and a non-invasive protocol when it comes to pruning and planting. All together, the vineyards average 4500 vines per hectare, allowing the root structures to thrive in natural competition with the cover crops and other natural vegetation. The family feels very strongly about creating this sustainable ecosystem, and the vines thrive as a result.
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25811 Clawiter Road
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United States
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