Anders Frederik Steen
Natural wines from Valvignères, in the Ardèche.
Both Danish, Anders and Anne met in Copenhagen. Anders trained as a chef and built the wine lists at Relæ and Manfreds, two of the city's natural wine landmarks, before moving to the Ardèche to make his own wine in 2013.
They settled in Valvignères, bought their first hectare in 2017, and now farm four. They work toward organic and biodynamic, feeding the soil with seawater and herbal preparations and letting grass grow between the vines. Estate fruit is rounded out with grapes from Domaine du Mazel and the Bannwarth family in Alsace.
Reds are destemmed by hand and macerated whole in their own juice, a habit borrowed from the Jura. Fermentation runs on native yeast, with nothing added and nothing taken away. No two wines are ever the same, so each vintage is read on its own terms.
A small cellar and press, run at an artisanal scale. Cuvée names read like lines of poetry. The wines bottle as Vin de France.
From the cellar
Anders Frederik Steen cuvées we have carried over the years.
Ce N’est Pas Mon Chien 2015
Ce N'est Pas Mon Chien — French for "this is not my dog" — is a red wine made from Grenache grown in Valvignères, a village in the southern Ardèche. The vineyards are farmed organically at Domaine Le Mazel, the...
Let’s Eat the World 2016
Let's Eat the World We Want to Live In is a 2016 Vin de France red from Anders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert, made at the cellar of Gérald and Jocelyne Oustric at Domaine Le Mazel in Valvignères, southern...
Don't Throw Plastic 2015
Don't Throw Plastic in the Ocean, Please is a Vin de France red from Anders Frederik Steen, made from 20% Grenache Noir, 30% Carignan, and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon grown in Valvignères, southern Ardèche. The vineyards sit on clay and limestone...
Pure Magique 2017
Pure Magique Pas des Chimiques is a Vin de France red from Anders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert, made in Valvignères in the southern Ardèche. The 2017 blend is roughly 75% Syrah and 25% Viognier, sourced from the organically...
In the shadow of NV
In the Shadow of the Morning Sun is 100% Grenache Noir sourced from the organically farmed vineyards of Domaine Le Mazel in Valvignères, a village in the southern Ardèche whose Roman name, Vallis Vinaria, translates as "valley of the vine."...
In the shadow of NV Magnum
In the Shadow of the Morning Sun is 100% Grenache Noir sourced from a single vineyard in the southern Ardèche village of Valvignères, where the morning sun disappears behind a mountain peak before it reaches the vines. Anders Frederik Steen...
We Can Do What I Can't NV
We Can Do What I Can't is 100% Syrah sourced from organically and biodynamically farmed vineyards in Valvigneres, a village in southern Ardeche. The vines grow on clay and limestone soils and have been tended organically for decades, many of...
Come Walk With Me 2018
Come Walk With Me and Wonder a Little is 100% Grenache Blanc sourced from a parcel of approximately forty-year-old vines planted on clay and limestone soils in Valgrand, in the southern Ardèche. The vineyards are farmed organically and biodynamically and...
Come Walk With Me Mag
Come Walk With Me and Wonder a Little is 100% Grenache Blanc sourced from a 40-year-old parcel in Valgrand, grown on clay and limestone soils at the Le Mazel farm in Valvignères, Ardèche. The vines are farmed organically and biodynamically...
Quand Gewurztraminer 2016
Quand J'étais Petit, Je N'étais Pas Grand is a skin-contact Gewürztraminer sourced from 0.60 hectares of 50-year-old vines belonging to the Bannwarth family in Alsace. The vines grow on clay and limestone soils and are farmed organically and biodynamically. Anders...
Dansons Pinot Gris 2013
Dansons Jusqu'aux Rêves is a skin-contact Pinot Gris sourced from 0.60 hectares of 50-year-old vines farmed organically and biodynamically by the Bannwarth family in Obermorschwihr, Alsace, on clay and limestone soils. Domaine Laurent Bannwarth has held organic certification since 2004...
La Cligne De L'œil 2016
La Cligne de l'Oeil is 100% Gewurztraminer sourced from 0.60 hectares of approximately 50-year-old vines belonging to the Bannwarth family in Obermorschwihr, Alsace. The vines grow on clay and limestone soils and have been farmed organically since 2004 and biodynamically...
The Sound of People Clapping Improves When it's Raining 2020
A Grenache red from Valvignères in the Ardèche, blending Grenache Noir and Grenache Blanc. Direct-pressed with no maceration and aged in old barrels, organic and made without additions.
I Hope Every Day 2021
A sparkling rosé pét-nat from the Ardèche, blending Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and a little Grenache Noir. Direct-pressed and bottled to finish fermenting naturally, with nothing added or removed.
I wear blue, when I don't know what else to do 2017
Single-variety Gewürztraminer made as a natural white. Native-yeast fermented with no added sulfur and aged for years in old barriques, bottled as Vin de France.
Poetry of Silence 2016
A natural white made from Pinot Noir by direct press, aged on its lees in old barrels. Native-yeast fermented in the Ardèche with nothing added or removed.
Hey you girl with the brown shoes on 2016
A single-vineyard Chardonnay from Valvignères, fermented with native yeasts in old barrels and aged on the lees for close to four years, with nothing added or removed.
The Brighter Cider of Life NV
A natural sparkling cider from the Ardèche, built on apple juice and topped up with Viognier. The bubbles form by finishing the fermentation in bottle.
Should we just rely on luck? 2022
Anders Frederik Steen Should We Just Rely on Luck? is a natural rosé wine produced in the Ardèche region of France. This cuvée is crafted from a blend of Cinsault, Chardonnay, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Noir, Syrah, and Merlot grapes from organically...
Once I had a choice of being better 2021
Orange skin-contact white from the Ardèche, blending Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc grown organically and biodynamically. Native-yeast fermented and bottled as low-sulfite Vin de France.
Parfois je monte a l'etage et je me sens un peu perdu 2018
A direct-pressed white from Pinot Noir, native-yeast fermented and aged about four and a half years in old oak. Made in the Ardèche, bottled as Vin de France with nothing added or removed.
Comme un Double-Vitrage Rosé 2020
A co-fermented field blend of Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Sylvaner and Muscat, aged a year in cuve outdoors, exposed to the elements without temperature control.
Les Vignes des Enfantes 2019
Les Vignes des Enfantes is a natural wine made by Anders Frederik Steen from organically farmed grapes grown in Ardèche, France. Spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeast, unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites.
Hold me Closer 2022
Hold me Closer is a natural wine made by Anders Frederik Steen from organically farmed grapes grown in Ardèche, France. Spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeast, unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites.
Bad Lighting Call you Later 2021
Bad Lighting Call you Later is a natural wine made by Anders Frederik Steen from organically farmed grapes grown in Ardèche, France. Spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeast, unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites.
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