Schweigen Kalkmergel Gewurztraminer Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, spicy Asian cuisine, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic border town of Schweigen, where German and French winemaking traditions seamlessly blur, this sweet Auslese showcases the unique terroir of the Pfalz's Kalkmergel (limestone marl) soils. Weingut Bernhart utilizes these ancient, calcium-rich soils to impart a vital mineral core and refreshing acidity to the naturally opulent, highly aromatic Gew'u00fcrztraminer grape. Historically, the vineyards of Schweigen have straddled the border with Alsace, making Gew'u00fcrztraminer a deeply symbolic variety for the estate. Crafted from hand-selected, overripe grapes, this Auslese is fermented slowly to preserve its intense bouquet of lychee, rose petals, and exotic spices, balanced beautifully by the cool-climate minerality of the Pfalz.
🍾 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
Gew'u00fcrztraminer