{"product_id":"anders-frederik-steen-backside-of-a-mountain-2025","title":"Anders Frederik Steen - Backside of a mountain 2025 (ONE PER ORDER)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBackside of a mountain 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e is a natural wine crafted by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/anders-frederik-steen-anne-bruun-blauert\"\u003eAnders Frederik Steen\u003c\/a\u003e, in the Ardeche region in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/france\"\u003eFrance\u003c\/a\u003e. This red wine is made with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pinot-noir\"\u003ePinot Noir\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/natural-wine-chardonnay\"\u003eChardonnay\u003c\/a\u003e grapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONE PER ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert work out of Valvignères in the Ardèche, and their motto is \"Nothing added. Nothing taken away.\" No wine is ever made twice, which is why the names keep changing, each one taken from a song lyric or a line of poetry. Much of the fruit comes from Jocelyne and Gérald Oustric at Domaine du Mazel and from the Bannwarth family in Alsace, alongside their own vines at Valgrand. Long slow pressings on an old press, and a long élevage in old wood with no topping up, are the house signature. No sulphur goes in, and neither does anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pinot Noir comes from the Bannwarth family at Obermorschwihr in Alsace, with Chardonnay from Domaine du Mazel in the Ardèche. Anders and Anne describe it themselves:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A two-week maceration of destemmed Pinot Noir from our friends Bannwarth in Obermorschwihr, Alsace. We destemmed the Pinot Noir, selected only the most beautiful berries and started, after another sorting of the berries, the maceration in a little bit of juice from directly pressed Chardonnay from Domaine du Mazel. This Chardonnay had already started its fermentation, something which helped us to make a shorter, but intense extraction of the Pinot Noir. The idea was to preserves the primary flavor profile of the Pinot, the dark red berries, the earthy mushroom-ness and all the floral notes of roses, violets and even thymes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt's also for that reason, the idea of preserving the primary flavors, we've bottled the wine young. The full fermentation and following shot élevage have been in a fiberglass cuve, something we only rarely do, even with our reds and almost never with our whites. This might make it sound like this wine is a simple red, but the complexity of this wine is obvious and outspoken, its origine of Alsace speaks very well for itself.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBottled at 13% alcohol. The words above are their own, from the 2026 release notes, and we have not yet tried this vintage ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MORE Natural Wine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66050916843788,"sku":null,"price":46.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0221\/6407\/8692\/files\/Anders-Frederik-Steen---Backside-of-a-Mountain.png?v=1794481268","url":"https:\/\/morenaturalwine.com\/products\/anders-frederik-steen-backside-of-a-mountain-2025","provider":"MORE Natural Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}