Messidor BA
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed from 10 to 40+ years from the vintage release, as its intense sweetness integrates and develops profound petrol, honeyed, and spice complexities over decades.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, apricot tart, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Gunderloch's 'Messidor' Beerenauslese is a rare and sublime expression of noble rot, crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytized Riesling grapes grown on the steep, iron-rich red clay-slate soils of the Nackenheimer Rothenberg. The name 'Messidor' pays homage to the tenth month of the French Republican Calendar—the 'month of harvest' associated with golden wheat fields and radiant summer warmth—reflecting the deep golden hue and sun-drenched concentration of this dessert wine. Fermented slowly to preserve the pristine purity of the fruit, this Beerenauslese beautifully balances luscious residual sweetness with the vibrant, electric acidity characteristic of the Roter Hang (Red Slope), resulting in a wine of immense complexity, longevity, and mineral tension.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1890 by banker Carl Gunderloch, Weingut Gunderloch is an esteemed estate located in Nackenheim along the Rhine in Germany's Rheinhessen region. Now meticulously stewarded across generations by the Hasselbach family, the estate is renowned for its historic holdings in the steep, red-slate terraces of the famous Roter Hang, particularly the grand cru Nackenheimer Rothenberg. Practicing attentive, terroir-focused viticulture, the winery crafts exceptional, mineral-driven Rieslings that span crystalline dry single-vineyard bottlings to legendary, long-lived noble sweet dessert wines such as Auslese and Trockenbeerenauslese. Gunderloch remains a benchmark of Rheinhessen winemaking, celebrated globally for its pure fruit expression, tension, and vibrant acidity.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling