WINEMAKER
Winery Andres
Established in 2015 in Deidesheim, Palatinate
In the northern Pfalz, where the vineyards of Deidesheim catch the day’s first and last light, Weingut Andres has quietly forged its own direction. When brothers Thomas and Michael Andres took over the family estate in 2015, their goal wasn’t noise but clarity — a clearer purpose, a clearer sense of origin, and wines that speak in full sentences rather than headlines.
Their vines sit on a layered mix of weathered sandstone, limestone, and marl, soils that naturally lend both brightness and calm. The work in the vineyard is organic, deliberate, and unhurried — the kind of approach where precision is earned through repetition, not through ego. Long before anything reaches the cellar, the decisions are already made among the rows: what to keep, what to sacrifice, how to hold freshness without chasing it.
Below ground, the wines are given time to become themselves. Fermentations are gentle, wood is used with restraint, and the guiding philosophy is minimal interference — not as a trend, but as a commitment to letting texture and tension come from the raw material. Nothing is forced, nothing rushed. The result is a range that feels steady and luminous: wines with quiet energy, clean lines, and a confidence that doesn’t need volume.
And here’s the moment that sealed it for me: I once poured Andres Chardonnay blind at Paulee de Meursault to a room full of Burgundy producers. Everyone around the table called it 100% Premier Cru Burgundy. That’s the level we’re talking about — not imitation, but that same language of precision, depth, and understatement!
