Weisser Burgunder
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted chicken, grilled white fish, creamy vegetable risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Weingut Wittmann's Weisser Burgunder is a masterful expression of Rheinhessen's limestone-rich soils, showcasing the estate's dedication to biodynamic viticulture. While Riesling often commands the spotlight in this region, the Burgunder varieties have a deep historical footprint here, thriving in the warm, sheltered microclimate of Westhofen. Wittmann crafts this estate wine using hand-harvested grapes that undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, partially in stainless steel and partially in traditional large oak casks. This dual maturation preserves the grape's natural, bright orchard fruit aromas while imparting a subtle, textured complexity and a distinctly chalky, saline minerality that reflects the ancient limestone terroirs.
🍾 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
Weisser Burgunder
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12-12.5%