Sonnenberg RG Weissburgunder GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy mushroom risotto, roasted veal chop, pan-seared sea bass
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted from the prestigious, cross-border Sonnenberg vineyard in Schweigen, this Grosses Gew$chs (GG) represents the pinnacle of dry German Weissburgunder. The specific parcel, 'RG' (Rundes Gewann), is celebrated for its ancient, heavy limestone-marl (Kalkmergel) soils that straddle the boundary between the German Pfalz and French Alsace. This unique Franco-German heritage is reflected in the wine's style, blending French textural elegance with German structural precision. Winemaker Gerd Bernhart employs traditional craftsmanship, fermenting and aging the wine in large oak casks (tonneaux) to develop a creamy, multi-layered texture while preserving the intense, chalky minerality and vibrant orchard fruit character that defines this historic terroir.
🍾 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
Weissburgunder
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13-13.5%