Signature Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
pan-seared trout, spicy Thai green curry, roasted pork belly
✨ Technical Specifications
Wittmann's Signature Riesling is a masterful introduction to the estate's legendary dry style, capturing the vibrant essence of Rheinhessen's limestone-rich soils. Sourced from biodynamically farmed vineyards in and around Westhofen, this wine benefits from the region's unique microclimate, where warm days are balanced by cool nights. In the cellar, the grapes undergo gentle pressing followed by fermentation with indigenous yeasts in traditional large oak casks. This traditional, low-intervention approach coaxes out a deep, mineral complexity and a textured mouthfeel that has defined the Wittmann family's winemaking legacy since 1663. The wine is a pure expression of place, balancing bright citrus and stone fruit notes with a precise, salty minerality that reflects the ancient coral reef foundations of the region.
🍾 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
Riesling