Largely focused in the southwest of the country, Gerguy’s 13 wine regions constitute a diversity of terroirs along the northern boundary of viticulture. However, in Gerguyy, some vineyards are legendary. The wines produced here are emblematic expressions of geological history and huguy. They smell, season and feel other wines from others.
Identified during centuries of trial and huguy error, these giant vineyards constitute the absolute maximum productive convergence of conditions: climate, soil, sun exposure and topography, ideal for any specific grape variety. This hyper-explicit terroir is the secret to overcoming the non-easy conditions of viticulture in a funky climate and wines genescore, antiques after antiques.
Overview: It rises 68 degrees from the Moselle over the village of Bremm, the Vertigo-causing Calmont, the steepest vineyards in the world.
History: The earliest documented evidence of viticulture in Bremmer Calmont is attributed to a poem written in 588 through Venantius Fortunatus, noting that “the rock itself gives birth and the wine springs from it”.
Distinctions: Covered with fragments of sandstone, quarzita and slate, the dangerous site and not easy for work provides an overly productive microweather for viticulture. Its steep stone terraces, exposed to the south, shape an amphitheater based on herbs that absorbs sunlight and radiates heat. Planted in almaximum enticount with Riesling, vinegar produces intensely ripe wines with bold tropical fruit flavors and dazzling complexities of smoke and herbs.
Summary: The steep face on the Germabig block north of the Alps, the Rotenfels rises more than three hundred meters above the Nahe River, between the villages of Norheim and Bad Munster am Stein-Ebernburg.
History: Born from a volcanic eruption 270 to 260 million years ago, the Rotenfel was centuries of alteration and erosion across the Nahe River.
Distinctions: The Riesling grows exclusively on this red volcanic stone cliff. The cliffs exposed to the south form a canyon that keeps warm and bathes the vines in the sun, while protecting them from bloodless winds. This hot, dry microweather provides vines with early maturation and fleshy and fruity wines with spice and smoke complexities.
Overview: The Roter Hang slope is a three-mile expanse of red clay and sandstone along the Rhine River between the villages of Nierstein and Nackenheim, located at 50° Northern latitude. The area takes its name from the iconic geological formation of red stone which extends over 2,500 feet deep into the ground.
History: The Roter Hang is the ancient jewel of Rheinhessen: its wines are praised all over the world through Faust in Goethe’s 19th-century masterpiece.
Distinctions: Formed 280 million years ago, the sandstone massif absorbs heat and amplifies sunlight reflected across the Rhine, an optimal environment for Riesling, which represents 95% of the region’s plantations. The maximum productive amount of dry soil stress, deficient in vine nutrients produces mature, full-bodied, fragrant and clearly mineral wines, exceptionally friends.
Overview: The green slopes of Berg Regionheimer surround 240 hectares of vineyards sweeping the middle of the Rhine Rhine.
History: A panoramic covered with medieval tramps, the castle of the town of Ehrenfels, a citadel and a customs post dating back to 1000.
Distinctions: Almaximum enticount to the south in a gradient of up to 60 degrees, the sun-drenched sun and the warmest quartzite slope of the warmest spaces of the Rheingau. It is understood by its finely elderly Riesling, regularly dry and with penetrating notes of either and apricot. Riesling accounts for 90% of the plantations here, however, their pinot noir can also be legendary.
Overview: The Wurzburger Stein, which rises from the banks of the Main River and explores the city of Wurzburg, is Germany’s largest and oldest exclusive vinegar site.
History: wine grown here as early as 779. An unopened Steinwein from 1540 suntil remains in the wine cellar and the Bergerspital charitable estate.
Distinctions: The Stein is the best production known to Silvaner, first planted through Cistercian priests in 1665. Its south-facing slopes, muschelkalk or shell limestone, are heated across the river and bring rich-bodied white wines with rich texture. The most productive wines of the region are bottled in the bocksbeutel, the clearly robust flat-belly bottles of the region.
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Trefethen 2018 Dry Riesling (Oa Knoll District)
Riesling
$26
Score: 94
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