Spatburgunder Sonnenberg Radling GG
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 5–15 years from the vintage release, showing its peak complexity as the tertiary forest floor and spice notes develop.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, wild mushroom risotto, pan-seared venison
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the prestigious, cross-border Sonnenberg vineyard that straddles the boundary between Germany's Pfalz and France's Alsace, the 'Radling' parcel is highly prized for its ancient limestone marl (Kalkmergel) soils. This VDP.Grosses Gewächs (GG) Spätburgunder represents the pinnacle of Weingut Bernhart's red winemaking. The vines benefit from a unique microclimate where warm air from the Rhine plain meets the cooling winds of the Vosges Mountains. Hand-harvested with meticulous selection, the grapes undergo traditional skin fermentation and are aged in French oak barriques. The resulting wine is a profound expression of terroir, balancing intense dark cherry fruit with a deep, chalky minerality, fine-grained tannins, and a complex, savory structure that reflects centuries of border-region viticulture.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Bernhart is situated in Schweigen-Rechtenbach along the southernmost fringe of the Pfalz, right at the French frontier near the historic Deutsches Weintor. While the family's agricultural roots date back centuries, estate bottling commenced under Willi and Wilma Bernhart in 1971, followed by their accession to the VDP in 2004 and formal organic certification in 2012. Today led by Gerd and Sabine Bernhart, the estate commands a singular cross-border terroir: approximately two-thirds of its roughly 20 hectares of vineyards are technically situated on French soil in Alsace, governed by special bilateral treaties that allow the wines to bear German designations. The viticultural backbone rests on dense, fossil-rich limestone, calcareous marl, and clay deposits across benchmark cru plots such as the Schweigener Sonnenberg. Winemaking emphasizes spontaneous fermentation, lees contact, and judicious wood aging, generating deeply structured, mineral-driven white and red expressions epitomized by their Kalkmergel and Grosses Gewächs bottlings.
🍇 Grapes
Spätburgunder
🍷 ABV
13-14%