# Only Grapes White (2025)

- **Producer:** Simon Haag
- **Colour:** white
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Silvaner, Bacchus
- **Region:** Franken, Germany
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 11.0%
- **Average price:** €12
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** Yes
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 8–10 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** apple, lemon, blossom, herbaceous

## About this wine

Simon Haag abandoned a career in wind energy engineering in 2020 to take over his family's agricultural estate in Franconia. Converting the vineyards to certified organic and regenerative farming, Haag creates natural wines in Kitzingen. He is a member of the NewKitz natural winemaker collective and shares cellar operations with renowned producer 2Naturkinder, crafting authentic wines rooted in Franconian shell limestone soils.

## Interesting facts

- Founder Simon Haag left a corporate career as a wind energy engineer in Hamburg to return to winemaking in 2020.
- Simon Haag shares his cellar facility in Kitzingen with renowned natural wine producer 2Naturkinder.
- Made as a strict zero-zero natural wine—spontaneously fermented without added sulfur, fining, or filtration.

## Food pairing

The high acidity and clean minerality cut through fresh cheeses and light oils, while the bright orchard fruit and aromatic citrus notes harmonize gracefully with delicate seafood, light pasta, and fresh summer greens.

## Wine making process

Crafted following strict zero-zero natural winemaking principles with zero added sulfur. The grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation driven entirely by wild native yeasts. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered to retain its raw energy, authentic texture, and direct expression of the vintage.