Winery

Carrousel de Tête

Carrousel de Tête is a boutique winery and stands for fun, creativity and ideas for free creation. Without any pressure, Fred and his team produce wonderful natural wines on mini plots that delight the soul and the palate.

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"Always drink upstream from the herd."

– Frederic Groß

Colour
Type
Wine Style
Price
Aromatic
Grape
Character
FUNKY
Natural wines with an individual play of aromas - from reductive to oxidative - that always maintain their elegance.
FUNKY
Natural wines with an individual play of aromas - from reductive to oxidative - that always maintain their elegance.

Carrousel de Tête

Riesling 2022

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Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Vegetative
Smooth, Elegant
262 kr
349 kr/L
Sold out
FUNKY
Natural wines with an individual play of aromas - from reductive to oxidative - that always maintain their elegance.
Sold out
FUNKY
Natural wines with an individual play of aromas - from reductive to oxidative - that always maintain their elegance.
Sold out

Carrousel de Tête

Blanc 2021

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Vegetative
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Fine-meshed
237 kr
316 kr/L
CLASSY
Clear, bright natural wines with a rather classic aroma spectrum.
CLASSY
Clear, bright natural wines with a rather classic aroma spectrum.

Carrousel de Tête

Clo du Paradis 2021 Riesling feat. Seckinger

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Elegant, Fine-meshed
416 kr
555 kr/L

Carrousel de Tête is a fun project for everyone, a playground and laboratory - for everyone who plays here.

Carrousel de Tête is a mini boutique winery on the German Wine Route in the Palatinate and literally the playground of Frederic Groß, his family and friends, who in 2018 acquired a small plot of 40-year-old vines with Riesling and Silvaner right next to the house. Frederic actually runs a graphic design studio and true to the motto "Get away from the computer, out into nature", he and his team are now swapping Photoshop for pruning shears to let off some steam. A total of 0.5 hectares of vineyards around Deidesheim and Meckenheim are now being cultivated. For the time being, this is the size of the vineyard.

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The natural wines from Carrousel de Tête are juicy, slightly playful and yet always serious

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Time and patience as well as fun and creativity are probably the right keywords for Carrousel de Tête, which means "head carousel" in German - but it doesn't make you dizzy, the wines trigger maximum head cinema and delight the soul and palate. They are ultra juicy, slightly playful, inviting and yet always on the serious side.

Naturally low yields, no intervention in the cellar, gentle ageing on the lees and bottled unfiltered. Everything can, nothing must - we are very excited to see which way the carousel will turn.

Interview with Frederic Groß from Carrousel de Tête

What is the concept behind Carrousel de Tête and where will it go?

Frederic: There is no real concept, we are making independent and hopefully trinky wines from old vineyards, with minimal influence. It's a fun project for everyone, a playground and laboratory - for everyone who plays here.


What makes a great wine for you? Or what is important to you personally in a wine?

Frederic:Individuality and juicyness.


How do you see the development of the German natural wine scene compared to other countries?

Frederic: We're still sitting in the sandbox, but the first ones are already swinging, that's something.

Dear Frederic, thank you very much for the interview!