AFS Don't Throw Plastic 2015, natural red wine bottle at Primal Wine
Anders Frederik Steen — natural wine producer
Anders Frederik Steen
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Anders Frederik Steen AFS Don't Throw Plastic 2015

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Tasting notes

The direct-press Cabernet Sauvignon juice keeps the wine lifted and aromatic where it could have been heavy, giving it a bright red-fruit pull and freshness unusual for 50% Cab in a hot year. The 10-day skin contact on the Grenache and Carignan adds grip without weight, landing somewhere between a structured rosé and a light red.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Wild StrawberryRedcurrantGarriguePomegranate
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Light Body
Grapes:Grenache Noir, Carignan, Cabernet Sauvignon
Farming:Organic and Biodynamic
Vintage:2015
Alcohol:12.8%
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 vigneron-négociant based in the southern Ardèche village of Valvignères with his wife and collaborator Anne Bruun Blauert. He trained as a chef before becoming a sommelier at Noma in Copenhagen, where he worked from 2007, and later co-opened the restaurants Relae and Manfreds, establishing one of the first fully natural wine lists in Denmark while also running a wine import operation.

Steen began making wine in 2013, initially purchasing fruit from growers he admired and working alongside Jura winemaker Jean-Marc Brignot. He was drawn to Valvignères through his relationship with Gérald and Jocelyne Oustric of Domaine du Mazel, whose vineyards on clay and limestone slopes had been farmed organically for decades. Steen and Blauert began farming their own parcels in 2017 and today manage around four hectares, while continuing to work with fruit from the Oustric family in Ardèche and the Bannwarth family in Obermorschwihr, Alsace.

Steen's approach changes with each vintage. Red grapes are either destemmed by hand or pressed directly; blending decisions are made at harvest so that different varieties ferment together from the start. Wines are aged in fibreglass vats or old wood, bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfites. He vinifies Alsatian grapes on-site in a dedicated cellar there, arguing that the cellar is itself part of the local terroir and cannot be separated from the fruit.

Wine region

Ardèche, France

The Ardèche department sits in southeastern France, roughly 50 kilometers south of Lyon and 100 kilometers north of the Mediterranean, bordered by the Rhône river to the east and the Massif Central to the west. The southern portion of the department, including the Ardèche river valley around Valvignères, has a Mediterranean-influenced climate with mild winters, hot dry summers, and cooling breezes from the Rhône that extend the ripening season. Soils vary across the region from granite and gneiss in the west to clay, limestone, and sandstone further east.

Most wines from the region carry the IGP Ardèche or the narrower Coteaux de l'Ardèche designation, though independent producers working outside those rules bottle under Vin de France, as Steen does. The AOC appellations of Saint-Joseph, Cornas, Côtes du Vivarais, and portions of Côtes du Rhône also fall within the Ardèche department. The IGP allows a broad range of varieties, and the southern Ardèche in particular has become a center of gravity for natural wine producers, including Le Mazel, Andrea Calek, and Le Raisin et l'Ange, alongside Steen.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

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2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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