Pinot Noir Rosé, Villa Wolf 2025
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Why this wine
German Pinot Noir rosé is a quieter proposition than the Provençal style, and at 11.5% this one trades weight for lift and drinkability. Picking the fruit early and pressing it after only a few hours on skins gives the pale colour without stripping the flavour, and the faint spritz keeps it lively on a warm afternoon. It is the everyday rosé in the range — the one to open without ceremony.
At a glance
- Grape
- Pinot Noir
- Region
- Pfalz, Germany
- Alcohol
- 11.50%
- Body
- Light
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Off-Dry
- Drink
- Drink now (1-3 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Salads, Seafood, Poultry & Pork
How it tastes
Pale pink, with pretty red-berried fruit and delicate floral notes. Barely off-dry and light-bodied, it is lively and juicy around a citrusy, refreshing core, and a very gentle spritz lifts the finish. Pinot Noir 100%.
The producer
Ernst Loosen travelled through the world's most prestigious wineries after taking over his family estate, and came back with the conviction that great wine is an expression of soil, climate and grape variety; in 1996 he bought J.L. Wolf, a winery whose history runs back to 1756, renamed it Villa Wolf and set about restoring it, appointing Patrick Moellendorf to lead the estate. The vineyards sit in the northern Pfalz around the town of Wachenheim on the edge of the Mittelhaardt, sheltered by the Haardt and Wasgau mountains and lying between those hills and the Rhine, on relatively fertile sandy loam and loess; the shelter makes this one of the warmer, drier parts of Germany, and much of the vineyard work — pruning, shoot thinning, bud rubbing, leaf plucking — is still done by hand. The Pinot Noir for the rosé was picked earlier than the fruit destined for the red wine so as to keep its fresh acidity, given only a few hours on its skins and then pressed very lightly, which is where the pale colour comes from, before fermenting in temperature-controlled stainless steel with selected yeasts and a light filtration ahead of bottling. In 2025 budbreak came on 15th April and flowering on 1st June, short and even under dry sunny weather that gave an abundant, uniform fruit set; dry conditions held from early June through August, and a swift, early harvest produced wines of vibrant depth and finesse.
Food and drinking
Serve well chilled at 8–10°C, straight from the fridge. It suits summer salads with goat's cheese and beetroot, grilled prawns, charcuterie and cold roast chicken, and lighter Thai dishes. Drink it young, within one to three years of the vintage, while the fruit and the spritz are at their freshest; no decanting needed. Sealed under screwcap. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.