Westhofener Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon-herb butter, roasted pork loin with braised fennel, goat cheese tartlet.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from premier biodynamically farmed parcels across the limestone-dense slopes of Westhofen, this VDP.Ortswein captures the chalky, tension-filled terroir of the southern Wonnegau. Hand-picked fruit undergoes ambient yeast fermentation and extended lees contact in traditional neutral German oak Stück and Doppelstück casks, yielding a dry, textured white defined by chalky minerality and bright citrus 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
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5-13%