Forster Winzer Jesuitengarten Riesling Seco 2024

Forster Winzer is a cooperative of growers in Forst, one of the top wine villages of the Palatinate, and this dry Riesling comes from the Jesuitengarten, a vineyard long counted among the region's finest. The soils here mix weathered sandstone with basalt fragments carried down from a nearby volcanic outcrop, and that dark stone warms in the sun and helps the grapes ripen fully while the site holds acidity. The Palatinate is one of Germany's warmer and drier regions, which is why the wine can be made fully dry, with the grape sugar fermented out to give a firm, mineral style rather than an off-dry one. It sees some time in wood, used to add texture rather than flavour, keeping the focus on fruit and stone. It pours pale with a green tint. The nose is fresh lime, green apple and white flowers with a flinty edge, and the palate is dry and tight, with lemon, white peach and a stony, saline finish lifted by a note of ginger. The acidity is bright and clean. Serve at 9 to 11 degrees.