Groß Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 to 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon-herb butter, roasted pork loin with apple chutney, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Weingut Wageck, located in Bissersheim within the northern Pfalz, is renowned for leveraging the region's rare, limestone-rich soils to craft highly structured white wines. The Groß Riesling comes from top-tier single-vineyard plots like the Bissenheimer Goldberg. Protected by the Haardt Mountains, the vines benefit from a warm climate tempered by cool night air, yielding fully mature fruit with electric natural acid. Hand-harvested with strict selection, the grapes undergo minimal intervention winemaking, resulting in a dry (trocken) Riesling defined by chiseled minerality, tension, and subtle textural depth.
🍾 About the Producer
Situated in the northern Mittelhaardt village of Bissersheim in the Pfalz, Weingut Wageck (historically Wageck-Pfaffmann) represents a multigenerational viticultural heritage formally established in its contemporary incarnation in 1973. Managed by brothers Thomas and Frank Pfaffmann alongside their parents Gertraud and Gunter, the 58-hectare estate has garnered acclaim for its distinctive Burgundy-centric focus and site-expressive mineral profiles. The domaine's terroir is profoundly defined by tertiary limestone formations (Kalkmergel and Kalkstein) with notable south-to-southeast vineyard exposures, prominently featured in premier parcels such as Bissersheimer Goldberg and Großkarlbacher Burgweg. Guided by sustainable vineyard management and low-yield French clonal selections, the cellar regimen centers on gentle ambient-yeast spontaneous fermentations and careful elevage across stainless steel and French barriques. Benchmark bottlings include the mineral-etched Bissersheimer Goldberg Riesling, crystalline Chardonnays, and complex single-vineyard Spätburgunder cuvées.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%