Grauer Burgunder
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roast pork tenderloin with apple compote, seared trout with browned butter and almonds, or creamy wild mushroom risotto.
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown on the limestone-laced loess and marl soils of the southern Wonnegau, this dry Grauer Burgunder captures the mineral tension and texture emblematic of estate parcels farmed under biodynamic methods. Following selective hand-harvesting, whole clusters undergo gentle pressing and spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Maturation takes place in a combination of stainless steel and large traditional neutral German oak casks (Stück and Doppelstück), resting on fine lees to develop richness and mid-palate complexity without masking the variety's crisp orchard fruit and chalky undertones.
🍾 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
Grauer Burgunder
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13%