Anders Frederik Steen
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Anders Frederik Steen AFS Pure Magique 2017

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Tasting notes

The Viognier co-maceration gives this Syrah an aromatic lift and herbal spice edge that makes it drink more like a perfumed northern Rhône red than a southern French table wine. At 16 days of skin contact in an outdoor fiberglass cuve with zero additions, it has a freshness and transparency that rewards a light chill.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Black PepperCherryVioletGarrigue
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Light Body
Grapes:Syrah, Viognier
Farming:Organic
Vintage:2017
Alcohol:N/A
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 village of Valvignères in the southern Ardèche, where he works alongside his partner and collaborator Anne Bruun Blauert. Before turning to winemaking, Steen trained as a chef and then worked as a sommelier at Noma in Copenhagen starting in 2007, where the restaurant's focus on Nordic natural ingredients sharpened his interest in minimal-intervention wines. He later co-opened the influential Copenhagen restaurants Relae and Manfreds and ran a natural wine import operation in Denmark.

Steen began making wine in 2013 in an initial collaboration with Jura winemaker Jean-Marc Brignot. That partnership lasted three years, during which time Steen established himself in Ardèche, drawn by the natural winemaking community around Gérald and Jocelyne Oustric of Domaine du Mazel. He and Blauert began farming their own parcels in 2017. Fruit is sourced from organically farmed vineyards in Valvignères — including grapes from the Oustrics — and from the Bannwarth family in Alsace. The Valvignères vineyards sit on clay and limestone soils and have been tended organically for decades.

Steen and Blauert make wine from 'grapes and only grapes' — no additions of any kind, ever. Red grapes are either pressed directly or destemmed by hand and co-fermented spontaneously in open fiberglass cuves left outside. White grapes are pressed slowly in an old wooden press. Blending decisions are made at harvest by tasting each variety, meaning wine names, grape compositions, and styles change every year. No wine is ever replicated. All wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined with zero added sulfites. In 2021, Apartamento published a collection of Steen's winemaking notes and observations under the title Poetry Is Growing in Our Garden.

Wine region

Ardèche, France

The Ardèche is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France, bordering the Rhône to the east and the Massif Central highlands to the west. The southern half of the department, including the area around Valvignères, experiences a Mediterranean climate with mild winters, hot dry summers, and the cooling influence of the Mistral wind, which extends the ripening season and helps preserve natural acidity in the grapes. Soils across the department vary considerably, ranging from granite and gneiss in the west to limestone, sandstone, and clay-marl in the central and southern zones. Around Valvignères specifically, the valley soils are predominantly clay and limestone.

Most wines from the Ardèche are sold under the IGP Ardèche (formerly Coteaux de l'Ardèche) designation, which covers approximately 7,500 hectares and allows a wide range of grape varieties including Syrah, Grenache, Viognier, Carignan, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. The formal AOC appellations within the department are Côtes du Vivarais and, at the southeastern tip bordering the Rhône corridor, Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Rhône Villages. Many small natural producers in the area, including Steen, bottle under Vin de France, which gives maximum freedom in blending and labeling. The community of natural winemakers centered around Domaine du Mazel in Valvignères has made the southern Ardèche one of France's most recognized areas for low-intervention viticulture.

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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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