Judith Beck Bambule! Weissburgunder 2021

Judith Beck farms biodynamically in Gols, in Austria's Burgenland, working Weissburgunder, the German name for Pinot Blanc, a white grape that gives gentle stone and orchard fruit with a soft acidity. Bambule! is an orange wine made by fermenting the grapes on their skins, which extracts tannin, colour and phenolics and gives the wine its amber tint and light grip. It then spends twelve months on its lees, the longest of the Bambule range, where the spent yeast cells break down and release mannoproteins that build a creamy, rounded texture and a savoury depth while protecting freshness. The result is fresh and textural rather than heavily oxidative. The colour is pale amber. The nose shows pear, white peach and green apple, lifted by white flowers and dried herbs. The palate is dry and textured, the lees giving a soft, savoury weight and the skin tannin a light grip, closing on orange peel and almond. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees in a white wine glass. It suits roast pork, chicken and herb-baked white fish.