{"product_id":"dolly-2023-litre-katla-wines","title":"Dolly 2023 (Litre Bottle) - Katla Wines","description":"\u003cp\u003eA blend of Merlot, Weissburgunder, and Riesling, each with a light maceration on skins before fermenting and ageing in stainless.\u003cbr\u003eHere we find all the small red berries, currants, wild strawberries, and a verdant, chlorophyllic, herbaceousness. Light and nimble, but with good volume on the palate, and a gentle brush of tannins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from the suburbs of Mönchengladbach in the industrial Rhineland, it took leaving Germany for Jas to find her way into wine. Following her nose and picking her mentors well, Jas is now settled in Wöllstein in Rheinhessen, where she runs her micro-négoce, as well as keeping just under a hectare of vines herself. Working and studying wine at restaurants around Europe, Jas' swansong in service came at Dill in Reykjavík, the first restaurant in Iceland to win a Michelin star, where she worked as a sommelier. What followed was a series of stages with producers whose wines she loved, most notably a now-retired doyen of southern Ardèche wine, Gilles Azzoni, who incidentally introduced me to Jas' wines while I myself was staging at Gilles' cellar in les Salelles. It was Gilles who impressed on Jas the possibility of producing wines without a family estate or owning vines (Gilles, himself a Parisian, did it in 1980). Inspired and encouraged, Jas took what savings she had to rent a corner of a cellar in the Mosel, and source fruit from the disparate band of growers behind the region's burgeoning viticultural enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003eHer first vintage was 2019, with 2,500 litres produced. It was a case of the right place at the right time for Jas. As a micro-négoce, she collaborates with growers at the epicentre of contemporary German winemaking from her base in Rheinhessen, working with varieties well-adapted to the pressures of the modern vineyard and a shifting climate. Sourcing grapes from Nahe, Pfalz, Rheinhessen and beyond, Jas applies the same subversive spirit in making her blends, deliberate in her crossing of borders, varieties, and colours, critiquing the hegemony of single-sites or noble varieties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe place\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA blend of fruit from two neighbouring regions, Dolly is a Deutscher Wein. The Merlot and Weissburgunder come from Rheinhessen, the biggest wine region in the country by volume and landmass, a wide limestone and loess plateau south of the Rhine. The fruit is sourced from Andi Mann in Eckelsheim and Niklas Rückrich respectively, two of the region's most respected young producers. The Riesling comes from Christine Pieroth of Piri Naturel in the Nahe, a valley tucked neatly between Rheinhessen and the Mosel. There's plenty of diversity in the soils here, with patches of volcanic, slate, sandstone and clay soils side by side. Nahe Riesling often casts an edgier silhouette than elsewhere, especially when wood has not been used at the cellar, as we find here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrapes:\u003c\/strong\u003e Merlot, Weissburgunder, Riesling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rheinhessen, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katla Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54988702744914,"sku":"25\/000085","price":34.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0246\/7154\/files\/original_8b4a19a1-3816-4bc2-8c07-962cec6a3516.jpg?v=1791451415","url":"https:\/\/www.brianswines.ie\/products\/dolly-2023-litre-katla-wines","provider":"Brian's Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}