Nackenheim Rothenberg Riesling Spatlese
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai green curry, glazed roast pork belly, or artisanal blue cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Nackenheim Rothenberg Riesling Spätlese is a benchmark expression of Germany's iconic 'Roter Hang' (Red Slope). The Rothenberg vineyard is legendary for its steep, 290-million-year-old red clay-slate soils, which absorb heat and impart a distinct smoky, iron-rich minerality to the grapes. Hand-harvested late in the season, this 100% Riesling captures a perfect balance of luscious natural sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity. Gunderloch's history is inextricably linked to this vineyard, which Carl Gunderloch first acquired in 1890. The resulting Spätlese is celebrated for its exotic fruit profile, tension, and profound depth.
🍾 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.