{"product_id":"2023-makalie-chapelle-baden-germany","title":"2023 Makalié, Chapelle, Baden, Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eMakalié is a tiny estate founded in 2019 by Max Frölich and Karoline Linka in Müllheim, in the southern Baden region of Germany. Both trained at the University of Geisenheim and seasoned in natural wine cellars across France and Austria, they returned home with a commitment to making wines that feel inseparable from the land itself. The name Makalié reflects that philosophy, created from maka (earth) and lié (connected). Their vineyards lie on steep slopes between the Black Forest, France, and Switzerland and their farming follows biodynamic principles, while in the cellar everything is done gently: hand harvests, spontaneous fermentations, aging in old Burgundian barrels and amphora, no fining or filtration, and only the faintest touch of sulfur at bottling. Production is microscopic, only a few hundred bottles per cuvée, yet the wines are pure and precise, vibrant and elegant, and a deeply personal expression of Baden’s terroirs and a philosophy of connection to the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapelle grows on the old Ölberg in Ehrenstetten, twenty kilometers north of Müllheim, on a steep southeast-facing slope in a nature reserve where limestone cliffs hold caves that sheltered people in the Stone Age. A stone’s throw above the vines stands the small Ölberg chapel that gives the wine its name, built in 1954 and reached by a path lined with Stations of the Cross. The spätburgunder here was planted in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly from massale selections brought from France, in sparse loess-loam over Jurassic limestone and marl. About 80% of the clusters go into tank whole for a two-week fermentation, with a single punch-down by foot before pressing and 18 months in barrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2023 Chapelle opens with Morello cherry and damson plum, followed by violets, juniper, and a thread of smoke from the barrels. On the palate it is silky at first and then firm, the tannins taking hold alongside a chalky finish that runs long. Karoline and Max describe Chapelle as tightly structured with a great deal still ahead of it, and in a vintage of cool September nights that structure arrives wrapped in bright, clear fruit. Drink through 2034.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67622016483624,"sku":"AT23MAKALIECHAPELLE750","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/2023Makalie_Chapelle.jpg?v=1791399783","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2023-makalie-chapelle-baden-germany","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}