Deidesheimer Herrgottsacker is a single vineyard site, southeast facing. Kimich owns 1.5ha in ten little parcels. 10% of the vineyard site is steep, 20% hilly and 70% is flat. The soil varies between sandy loam and loamy sand, mixed with limestone rocks and red sandstone. The name “Herrgottsacker”...
(2.5g RS/7.5g acid/12.5% alc) A site made famous by many winemakers in the region, the Niersteiner Pettenthal is a finer soil than Rothenberg, more pebbly with broken rocks and less geological compression. The wines from here tend to be more tensile, more filigreed, lighter on their feet, yet ...
(3.5g RS/8g acid/12% alc) Gunderloch’s crown jewel vineyard is the Nackenheimer Rothenberg, one of the top grosse lagen (grand cru’s) of the “Roter Hang” (a 5km stretch of steep vineyards along the Rhine river composed of iron-rich, blood-red slate and clay). The Rothenberg is almost a monopole for...
Always a pleasure and always great value for Riesling-lovers, the grapes for Jean-Baptiste are mainly grown on the lower terraces of the Niersteiner Pettenthal (a grand cru site). Technically a feinherb style, or "balanced off-dry” at about 22-24g/l RS every year. This is a wine we've used again...
Always a pleasure and always great value for Riesling-lovers, the grapes for Jean-Baptiste are mainly grown on the lower terraces of the Niersteiner Pettenthal (a grand cru site). Technically a feinherb style, or "balanced off-dry” at about 22-24g/l RS every year. This is a wine we've used again...
8.3g/l RS and 8.5g/l acidity. The Muller Estate Trocken comes this year from old vines from 1983 at the top of the Niedermenniger Herrenberg, a red slate site. Vinified dry in 2/3 stainless steel, 1/3 Fuder barrels. Energetic, crunchy, mineral, and far more serious a wine than it has to be -- as...
A light fresh glass of apple blossoms and pebbles with a thirst-quenching finish, this is the perfect intro for everyone to the joys of DRY German Riesling. Alc. 12.0%, 7 g/L RS, 7.5 acidity. Pour it, sip it, carafe it, stack it, and have a ball with it. We'll spare you the inevitable puns about...
A light fresh glass of apple blossoms and pebbles with a thirst-quenching finish, this is the perfect intro for everyone to the joys of DRY German Riesling. Alc. 12.0%, 7 g/L RS, 7.5 acidity. Pour it, sip it, carafe it, stack it, and have a ball with it. We'll spare you the inevitable puns about...
