2019 ZIEREISEN "HEUGUMBER" GUTEDEL BADEN
2019 ZIEREISEN "HEUGUMBER" GUTEDEL BADEN, GERMANY. 100% Gutedel (Chasselas)
It is characteristic of Ziereisen’s originality that he should hang his hat by the regional specialty grape known locally as Gutedel (but better known as Chasselas in France and Fendant in Switzerland). Indeed, his most expensive (and staggeringly so) product is a version of this grape given the full Montrachet treatment. To our plebeian tastes, however, it is this basic wine that best conveys the irresistible charm of this under-appreciated and simply delicious grape variety.
Stony, lissome and light, with the faintest hint of astringency in the tail, it slides down the throat as easily a hot knife slices through butter. (Importer)
About: Hanspeter Ziereisen is a carpenter by profession. But at the beginning of the nineties he was seized by the wine virus, which was a passion for good wine, and he transformed the parental farm estate, into a winegrowing business. The winery Ziereisen today has about 19.5 hectares of vineyards on which Gutedel, white and Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer Pinot Noir and Syrah are cultivated.
The wines of Edeltraut and Hanspeter Ziereisen not only taste different than all others in the Markgräfler Land, they are different! The soils are extremely calcareous. Hanspeter Ziereisen's wines owe their visionary notion of quality, which is unparalleled in the German-speaking context, to the fact that they smell and taste full of character and quite contradictory. He dares to risk fermenting with natural ambient yeasts instead of the usual, safe 'pure culture yeasts and lets his wines mature unusually long on the yeast in the wooden barrel.
With curiosity and great openness, Hanspeter Ziereisen devotes himself to the search for the true tradition in viticulture. Thus, over the years, he made his impressively independent white and red wines the avant-garde of spontaneously fermented, gently slowly matured wines in Germany. Hanspeter Ziereisen's Gutedel is one of the best on the market in bottle-aged, but unrecognized old grape varieties in this country. His white wines disarmingly honest and his very own structured Pinot Noir brimming impressively with the original character and show character strongly the signature of their winemaker. (Importer)
It is characteristic of Ziereisen’s originality that he should hang his hat by the regional specialty grape known locally as Gutedel (but better known as Chasselas in France and Fendant in Switzerland). Indeed, his most expensive (and staggeringly so) product is a version of this grape given the full Montrachet treatment. To our plebeian tastes, however, it is this basic wine that best conveys the irresistible charm of this under-appreciated and simply delicious grape variety.
Stony, lissome and light, with the faintest hint of astringency in the tail, it slides down the throat as easily a hot knife slices through butter. (Importer)
About: Hanspeter Ziereisen is a carpenter by profession. But at the beginning of the nineties he was seized by the wine virus, which was a passion for good wine, and he transformed the parental farm estate, into a winegrowing business. The winery Ziereisen today has about 19.5 hectares of vineyards on which Gutedel, white and Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer Pinot Noir and Syrah are cultivated.
The wines of Edeltraut and Hanspeter Ziereisen not only taste different than all others in the Markgräfler Land, they are different! The soils are extremely calcareous. Hanspeter Ziereisen's wines owe their visionary notion of quality, which is unparalleled in the German-speaking context, to the fact that they smell and taste full of character and quite contradictory. He dares to risk fermenting with natural ambient yeasts instead of the usual, safe 'pure culture yeasts and lets his wines mature unusually long on the yeast in the wooden barrel.
With curiosity and great openness, Hanspeter Ziereisen devotes himself to the search for the true tradition in viticulture. Thus, over the years, he made his impressively independent white and red wines the avant-garde of spontaneously fermented, gently slowly matured wines in Germany. Hanspeter Ziereisen's Gutedel is one of the best on the market in bottle-aged, but unrecognized old grape varieties in this country. His white wines disarmingly honest and his very own structured Pinot Noir brimming impressively with the original character and show character strongly the signature of their winemaker. (Importer)
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