2026 Halbmond

Tasting

Halbmond is our liqueur wine, and it starts where most wines have barely begun: with freshly pressed juice, before any fermentation. For the 2023 bottling, we fortified freshly pressed Regent must with our own brandy — also made from Regent, from the same vineyard, just an older vintage. The result sits at 17.5% alcohol, with a sweetness that doesn’t hide. Anyone who knows Champagne will spot a distant relative here: Ratafia, made the same way, grape must fortified with marc brandy — though barely anyone around here has heard of it (we hadn’t either, until recently). The wine then ages oxidatively in a small oak barrel, which gives it its nutty complexity: walnut, dried fruit, a touch of caramel beneath the sweetness. Good with blue cheese, dark chocolate, or simply on its own after dinner, in small glasses.