Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy mushroom risotto, roasted chicken, grilled sea bass
✨ Technical Specifications
Weingut Bernhart's Chardonnay is a masterclass in cool-climate, border-terroir winemaking. Grown in the limestone-rich soils of Schweigen-Rechtenbach, where vineyards seamlessly cross the German-French border into Alsace, this wine benefits from a unique geographical and cultural synthesis. Embracing traditional Burgundian methods, the grapes are carefully selected, gently pressed, and fermented using native yeasts. The wine is typically aged on its fine lees in French oak barriques, which imparts a creamy texture, subtle nutty complexity, and elegant structural depth. The result is a highly precise, mineral-driven Chardonnay that beautifully balances vibrant acidity with rich notes of yellow stone fruit, toasted brioche, and a salty, limestone-driven finish.
🍾 About the Producer
Located in Schweigen-Rechtenbach at the southernmost tip of the Pfalz along the French border, Weingut Bernhart is a distinguished family-run estate renowned for bridging German and Alsatian viticultural traditions. Led by Gerd Bernhart, a member of the prestigious VDP since 2004, the estate crafts expressive, site-transparent wines from venerable cross-border sites like the Schweigener Sonnenberg. The winery is celebrated for its deep limestone-rich terroirs, which yield extraordinarily mineral, complex, and age-worthy Burgundian varieties—notably refined Spätburgunder, Weissburgunder, and Chardonnay—alongside tension-filled, crystalline dry Rieslings.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Chardonnay
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5-13.5%