Wassmann Pince

FRANC

2020

Ralf Wassmann and Susann Hanauer spontaneously bought a small old-fashioned winemaking property with grapes and peach trees in the southernmost region of Villány in 1998. Within two weeks of their first visit to Hungary, they packed up and moved from Germany (where Ralf was a winemaker) to Pécsdevecser, a once-Swabian settlement with German roots. They came to natural winemaking quite instinctively, wishing to make delicious, well-balanced wines with minimal intervention that respected the land on which they lived and worked. They were the first winery in Hungary to certify organic (2003) and the second to certify biodynamic (2011).

2022 was a lovely vintage in Villány. The town in southern Hungary is famous for its Cabernet Francs, and this is a great example of what makes these wines special. The Franc is fresh and rich, with blackberries, cherries and paprika on the nose. Generous fruit, cocoa and orange zest, red fruit cordial and black pepper on the palate. Complex and juicy. Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, and aged in used Hungarian and French barriques for 20 months. Unfiltered and unfined, zero sulfur added.