2020 Müller-Catoir MC Riesling

WINEMAKER: Martin Franzen
REGION: Pfalz, GER
VARIETAL: Riesling
VITICULTURE: Certified Organic

Few German estates produce an entry Riesling of this depth and structure. It is made entirely from hand-harvested, Estate-grown Riesling, cropped at an incredibly low 35hl/ha to mitigate its younger-vine origins. The source vineyards are all from the sandstone slopes of the Haardt hills, Mussbach, Gimmeldingen and Haardt itself.

At a time when minimal intervention and the concept of terroir was still alien to the German wine lands, Hans-Günther Schwarz knew the score: you have to have an innate understanding of soil and site before you can make great wine. His legacy of low intervention viticulture and winemaking has gone on to inspire and educate a whole generation of young German winemakers, in the now-accepted theory that great wine is made in the vineyard not the cellar.