Sweet Purple
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, berry tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the innovative Pfalz winemaker Oliver Zeter, 'Sweet Purple' is a delightfully unconventional sweet red wine that challenges traditional German winemaking boundaries. In a region famed for its dry Rieslings, Zeter embraces the luscious side of red varietals to create a wine brimming with rich, dark fruit character and a velvety mouthfeel. The grapes are carefully harvested at peak ripeness to ensure a natural concentration of sugars and flavors, then vinified to retain a luscious residual sweetness balanced by a refreshing acidity. Adorned with the estate's signature friendly bear, this cuvée represents Zeter's playful spirit and his dedication to crafting wines that are both highly distinctive and immensely pleasurable.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 2007 by Oliver Zeter and his family, the Oliver Zeter winery is situated in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the sun-drenched Pfalz region of Germany. Born out of a deep-seated passion for viticulture after years in the international wine trade, the estate gained swift acclaim, symbolized by the iconic 'drinking bear' caricature sketched by artist Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer in the 1930s. Oliver Zeter embraces a modern and meticulous approach to winemaking, championing parcel-specific vinification and selective oak aging to showcase the terroir's diverse sandstone, limestone, and loess soils. The winery is particularly celebrated as a pioneer of multifaceted Sauvignon Blanc in Germany, alongside pure, expressive bottlings of Grauburgunder, Riesling, and distinctive, age-worthy red blends such as 'Z'.