Der Berg Chardonnay Reserve
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared Dover sole with brown butter and capers, roasted guinea fowl with chanterelles, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated on steep limestone marl terraces in the Wonnegau, this Chardonnay Reserve demonstrates the potential of Burgundian varieties within Rheinhessen's fractured mineral strata. Sourced from biodynamically farmed parcel selections, the hand-harvested fruit undergoes gentle pressing followed by spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeasts in traditional French oak barriques and tonneaux. Extended maturation on the fine lees imparts textural breadth and savory complexity while preserving the linear, saline spine driven by the underlying Muschelkalk limestone.
🍾 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
Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
13.0%