Grauer Burgunder
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork, creamy mushroom risotto, grilled poultry
✨ Technical Specifications
In the rolling, sun-drenched hills of Rheinhessen, Weingut Wittmann crafts this expressive Grauer Burgunder (Pinot Gris) with the same biodynamic precision that defines their legendary Rieslings. While Riesling often commands the spotlight, the Burgunder family has a deep, historic connection to the region's limestone-rich soils. This estate bottling captures the essence of Westhofen's unique terroir, where ancient coral reefs left behind calcium-rich earth. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in traditional large oak casks in the estate's historic 19th-century cellar, this wine avoids the heavy, flabby characteristics often associated with the grape. Instead, it reveals a vibrant, textured, and deeply mineral profile, celebrating the grape's historical journey from its French origins to its beloved status in German viticulture.
🍾 About the Producer
With viticultural heritage in Westhofen dating back to 1663, Weingut Wittmann is one of Germany's most influential pioneers of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the Wonnegau sub-region of Rheinhessen. Under the visionary leadership of Philipp Wittmann, alongside his family, the estate transitioned to organic farming in 1990 and achieved full biodynamic certification in 2004. Wittmann's philosophy centers on intense vineyard care, spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, and aging in traditional neutral oak casks to express the profound limestone-rich terroir of legendary VDP.Grosse Lage sites such as Morstein, Kirchspiel, Aulerde, and Brunnenhäuschen. Renowned globally for benchmark Grosses Gewächs dry Rieslings characterized by crystalline precision, tension, and chalky minerality, the estate also crafts exceptional noble sweet botrytis wines and refined Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Grauer Burgunder
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5% - 13%