Messidor BA
⏳ wine.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.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Blue cheese, apricot tart, foie gras
✨ wine.spec_sheet
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.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Founded in 1890 by banker Carl Gunderloch, the Gunderloch estate is located in Nackenheim in the Rheinhessen region of Germany. Today, the winery is managed by Johannes Hasselbach, representing the sixth generation of the family to craft exceptional, terroir-driven wines. The estate is deeply committed to ecological viticulture and is renowned for its holdings in the legendary Nackenheimer Rothenberg vineyard, situated along the clay-slate "Roter Hang" (Red Slope). Gunderloch is celebrated globally for its precise, mineral-rich Rieslings, ranging from the dry Nierstein Riesling trocken to the off-dry Jean Baptiste Kabinett and luscious, age-worthy Auslese and TBA expressions.Address: Carl-Gunderloch-Straße 1, 55299 Nackenheim, Rheinhessen, Germany. Website: https://www.gunderloch.de