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Weingut Wittmann farms biodynamically in Germany, and this dry Riesling comes from the estate’s limestone soils. Fermented and aged in wood, it is bone dry, with lemon, green apple and a firm, chalky minerality.
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Weingut Wittmann is a biodynamic and organic estate, and this bottling takes its name and its character from limestone, the Kalkstein of the vineyard soils. Riesling grown on limestone gives a wine of tension and salinity rather than the softer fruit of sandy or slate sites, with high natural acidity and a stony backbone. The grapes are picked for a fully dry, trocken style, so the sugar ferments out and the fruit is left taut and precise. Ageing takes place in wood, which here means large neutral casks used for texture and slow oxygen exchange rather than oak flavour, with lees contact adding a fine roundness to the mid palate. At 12.5 degrees of alcohol the wine stays light and driven. The colour is pale straw with green glints. The nose is clean and mineral, leading on lemon, green apple and white peach, with white flowers and a wet stone note. The palate is bone dry and racy, the acidity framing a chalky, saline finish. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees in a white wine glass.
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