Wine & Roses

NEXT OPEN BOTTLE DAY
Saturday, 6 September
between 2 and 6 p.m.

A new playground for winemakers: Vin de France & Landwein
We recently noticed that we were selling more and more wines with the Landwein and Vin de France designations in our shop. These are often wines from young winemakers who have decided to declassify their wines on their own initiative. They deliberately choose to push back traditional boundaries and to create new styles of wine, making them an integral part of the new wave of viticulture.

Originally the ‘Deutscher Landwein’ category was introduced by the German wine law in 1982 as an answer to the French Vin de Pays, a basic tier just above table wine with less stringent requirements than Qualitätswein. Eventually the Landwein designation became more important for a totally different reason. All Qualitätsweine have to be approved as being typical of their provenance and tradition by a tasting commission, usually made up of local growers and wine board inspectors. Some of the most enterprising growers in Baden found their applications turned down because in the eyes of the commission their wines did not meet these criteria. A growing number of like-minded growers are happy to declare all their wines as Landwein since, instead of being perceived as third rate, the designation has become a byword for exciting, individual, sometimes outright unconventional wines.
We will let you taste six excellent German, French and Italian outsider wines that we are proud of.

We are open everyday now until Christmas to get you your favorite wines for the festive season. Check www.wineandroses.nl for the exact hours.