Soma Vines 'Hang On' Pét-Nat
Baden > Germany
Pinot Blanc & Chardonnay, 2022
Soma Vines is a project first founded in Berlin by International winemaking couple - Antoine (from France), and Daisy (from the UK). This 50/50 blend of Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay from 40 year organically farmed vines, picked in early September to preserve natural acidity, then pressed the grapes and transferred the juice into 500L barrels to ferment and age over 10 months. A long fermentation! The result is a somewhat wild wine bursting with green apple, a creamy mouthfeel, and lots of little bubbles all over the tongue.
Baden > Germany
Pinot Blanc & Chardonnay, 2022
Soma Vines is a project first founded in Berlin by International winemaking couple - Antoine (from France), and Daisy (from the UK). This 50/50 blend of Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay from 40 year organically farmed vines, picked in early September to preserve natural acidity, then pressed the grapes and transferred the juice into 500L barrels to ferment and age over 10 months. A long fermentation! The result is a somewhat wild wine bursting with green apple, a creamy mouthfeel, and lots of little bubbles all over the tongue.
Baden > Germany
Pinot Blanc & Chardonnay, 2022
Soma Vines is a project first founded in Berlin by International winemaking couple - Antoine (from France), and Daisy (from the UK). This 50/50 blend of Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay from 40 year organically farmed vines, picked in early September to preserve natural acidity, then pressed the grapes and transferred the juice into 500L barrels to ferment and age over 10 months. A long fermentation! The result is a somewhat wild wine bursting with green apple, a creamy mouthfeel, and lots of little bubbles all over the tongue.
Varietals: 50% Pinot Blanc, 50% Chardonnay
ABV: 11.5%
Soils: clay and calcareous
The Story: Antoine is originally from Marseille. He studied oenology at the winemaking school in Alsace, France. After some years working for different wineries in Germany such as Sekthaus Griesel and Domaine Brand et Fils in France, he joined forces with SOMA to begin making his own range of low-intervention wines.
Daisy is originally from Norwich, UK. After years of working in the hospitality industry, she went on to study wine, which led her to London and New York working for well-known companies such as Majestic Wine and Chambers Street Wines. After founding SOMA VINES in Berlin, which started as an importing and distributing company in 2018, then further developed into a winemaking project with Antoine. Their first vintage was 2020.
"We have close to 3 hectares of organic vines that we rent in Rheinhessen and we buy grapes from Weingut Nägele in Baden. We work with people who share the same philosophy and grow organic and biodynamic grapes in the vineyard. In the cellar, we work low intervention. Spontaneous fermentation, no fining, no filtration and no to low added SO2 in the wines."
Personality: Green apple, creamy mouthfeel, lots of little bubbles all over the tongue, slightly wild.
Harmony: A perfect aperitif. Or sip on it while doing some house chores, no one should do house chores without this bubbly friend anyhow.