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Anders Frederik Steen

AFS Come Walk With Me 2018

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Tasting notes

This is Grenache Blanc pressed over four full days and aged nine months in a 4,000-litre foudre — the extended contact and oxidative élevage produce a texture and depth rarely seen from this grape. Bergamot, ripe peach, and a briny, crunchy finish make it one of the more interesting skin-influenced whites coming out of southern France.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
White PeachBergamotQuinceSaline
  • Style: Orange wine, medium body; hazy golden; oxidative stone fruit, bergamot, saline finish; 12.5% ABV
  • Grapes & Terroir: 100% Grenache Blanc; ~40-year-old vines; clay and limestone soils, Valgrand, Ardèche; organic and biodynamic farming
  • Winemaking: Four-day slow press; 9 months élevage in 4,000-litre foudre; spontaneous fermentation; unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur; Vin de France
  • Serving: Serve at 52-56°F; can handle 15-20 min chill if serving warmer; no decant needed
  • Pairing: Roast chicken, aged sheep's milk cheese, grilled white fish, cured fish, charcuterie
  • Similar To: For fans of oxidative whites like Jura Savagnin or Corsican Vermentino who want natural wine texture

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 have been tended without synthetic inputs for decades at Gérald and Jocelyne Oustric's farm, Le Mazel, near the village of Valvignères.

Steen pressed the grapes over four days in a long, slow press before transferring the juice to a 4,000-litre foudre, where it aged for nine months. No fining, filtration, or sulfur was added at any stage. The wine is bottled as Vin de France, carrying no AOC or IGP designation.

The result is a textured, oxidative white with ripe stone fruit and a lifted, saline finish. Cellartracker tasting notes describe aromas of peach, apple, orange, and bergamot, with a hint of co2, perky salinity, and bright acidity on the palate. The wine sits at 12.5% ABV.

The label name came directly out of the 2018 harvest: when Steen was uncertain how to approach the grapes, a fellow winemaker suggested they step away and take a walk to reflect. That walk gave the wine its name.

Works well with dishes that can hold up to a bit of oxidative character: roast chicken with herbs, aged sheep's milk cheese, or grilled white fish with olive oil and lemon. Also good with charcuterie and cured fish like gravlax or anchovies.

Wine details

Dry/Sweet:, Dry
Wine Type:, Orange Wine
Wine Style:, Medium Body
Grapes:, Grenache Blanc
Farming:, Organic and Biodynamic
Vintage:, 2018
Alcohol:, 12.5%
Country:, France
Region:, Ardèche
Appellation:, Vin de France
Bottle Size:, 750ml
Sugar Level:, Zero Added Sugar

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Producer profile

Anders Frederik Steen

Anders Frederik Steen is a Danish winemaker who lives in Valvignères, southern Ardèche, with his partner Anne Bruun Blauert. Before making wine, he trained as a chef and then became a sommelier at Noma in Copenhagen, later helping open the restaurants Relae and Manfreds, where he built one of the first entirely natural wine lists in Denmark. He also ran a natural wine import company in Denmark. By 2012 he was in discussions with Jura winemaker Jean-Marc Brignot about making wine, and in 2013 they began making wine together using grapes from Gérald and Jocelyne Oustric at Domaine Le Mazel. After Brignot left to pursue farming in Japan in 2015, Steen continued independently. He and Anne settled permanently in Valvignères in 2016.

Steen makes wine at Le Mazel, on a slope above a wide open valley with clay and limestone soils that have been farmed organically for decades. He also works with grapes from the Bannwarth family in Alsace, which he vinifies on site in Alsace rather than transporting them. As of recent vintages, Steen farms approximately four hectares of his own vines in addition to working with the Oustric fruit. The vineyards are managed organically and biodynamically.

Steen's approach to winemaking changes with every vintage. He does not set a formula in advance; instead he tastes the grapes at harvest and decides how to proceed based on what the fruit gives him. White grapes are pressed in an old wooden press using a slow, gentle technique. Reds are destemmed by hand or pressed directly. Any blending decisions are made during harvest, and different varieties ferment together spontaneously. All wines are bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfur.

Wine region

Ardèche, France

The Ardèche department sits on the western bank of the Rhône, roughly 50 kilometres south of Lyon and 100 kilometres north of the Mediterranean, between the Rhône valley to the east and the Massif Central plateau to the west. The southern half of the department, where the Ardèche river and its tributaries carve through limestone plateaux, has a Mediterranean climate: mild winters and long, hot, dry summers, moderated by the northerly Mistral and occasional moisture-laden winds from the south. Soils across the region vary from granite and gneiss in the west to clay-limestone and sandstone further east, with the clay-limestone zones around Valvignères particularly suited to Grenache and Syrah.

Ardèche wine falls under four designations: IGP Ardèche, AOC Côtes du Vivarais, AOC Côtes du Rhône, and AOC Côtes du Rhône Villages Saint-Andéol. AOC appellations Saint-Joseph, Cornas, and Saint-Péray are also located within the department's borders along the Rhône itself. Many small independent producers, including Anders Frederik Steen, bottle under Vin de France rather than any IGP or AOC, giving them freedom to grow and blend outside the permitted variety lists. The region has about 7,500 hectares under vine across the IGP alone, though cooperative cellars account for the majority of production. A small but prominent group of natural wine producers centered around the village of Valvignères has put the southern Ardèche on the radar of the international natural wine community.

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