Silvaner Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Poached white asparagus with hollandaise sauce, pan-fried freshwater trout with herbs, or roasted spring vegetables alongside goat cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated across the rolling limestone, loess, and marl soils of the southern Wonnegau, this dry Silvaner reflects biodynamic vineyard management paired with traditional cellar work. The hand-harvested fruit undergoes gentle pressing followed by spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in large neutral German oak Stück and Doppelstück casks as well as stainless steel. Aging on fine lees lends a tactile, savory texture to the palate, enhancing the variety's inherent herbal and earthy character while preserving bright mineral tension.
🍾 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
Silvaner
🍷 ABV
12.0% - 12.5%