Weissburgunder Reserve Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared veal medallions with chanterelles, roast turbot with lemon brown butter, or creamy aged Comt.
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown across the limestone-dense slopes of Westhofen, this cuv ee highlights the Burgundian side of the Wonnegau. Handpicked biodynamic Pinot Blanc fruit undergoes a brief maceration before gentle pressing. Spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeasts takes place in neutral German oak csks (Stck and Doppelstck), followed by extended maturation on full lees, imparting a textural, chalky backbone to complement its ripe orchard fruit.
🍾 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
Weissburgunder
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%