100 Hugel Riesling Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon and herbs, fresh goat cheese crostini, Vietnamese summer rolls with cilantro and lime.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from gently rolling, biodynamically farmed hillside vineyards surrounding Westhofen in the Wonnegau, this dry Riesling reflects soils rich in loess, clay marl, and fragmented limestone. Fermented spontaneously using native ambient yeasts, the juice typically sees temperature-controlled stainless steel alongside traditional large neutral oak casks to retain primary vibrancy while offering fine phenolic contour. The resulting wine is bright, tension-filled, and defined by brisk citrus fruit and chalky minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
With ancestral roots in Westhofen documented to 1663, Weingut Wittmann stands as a monumental force in the modern renaissance of Rheinhessen viticulture. Situated in the rolling Wonnegau district, the estate encompasses prestigious VDP Grosse Lage terroirs including Morstein, Kirchspiel, Brunnenhäuschen, and Aulerde. These steep, sun-drenched parcels feature deeply layered upper limestone and clay-marl colluvium over fractured subterranean limestone bedrock, fostering remarkable minerality and tension. Guided by cellarmaster Philipp Wittmann and his wife Eva Clüsserath, alongside his pioneering parents Günter and Elisabeth, the estate spearheaded organic cultivation in 1990 before achieving full Demeter biodynamic certification in 2004. In their vaulted 1829 cellar, hand-harvested fruit undergoes gentle pressing and spontaneous native-yeast fermentation in traditional large neutral oak Stück and Doppelstück casks. Renowned for chiseled, dry Rieslings and textural Burgundian varieties, Wittmann produces cellar-worthy benchmarks defined by intense saline depth, purity of fruit, and aristocratic limestone energy.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
11.5-12.5%