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Muller-Catoir – Riesling Haardt Pfalz – 2019
Among the finest and best Rieslings in the region despite being a basic version that reflects not an intent but a certainty in doing something i.e., making one understand what it means to be in the Palatinate with a simple glass. It is made from 50-year-old vines in the Haardt district that has slopes with inclines only for human intervention in the harvests, the soils being the real key where slate and clay layers give perfume and minerality. Selection of the bunches around the first weeks of September with no residual sugar which are cold fermented in steel tanks with indigenous yeasts remaining in the same containers for 12 months before being bottled. Very enterprising as a wine, an authentic Riesling, notes of yellow fruit and hydrocarbon, on the palate it is dry, mineral with good acidity but with a constant persistence on the finish that makes it already out of category compared to others.
- Producer: Muller-Catoir
- Name: Riesling Haardt Pfalz
- Grape Variety: 100% Riesling
- Vintage: 2019
- Alcohol Content: 12,5%
- Bottle Size: 750 ml
- Production:
Productive Notes: vinification in steel tanks with indigenous yeasts, aging in the same containers for 12 months.
Wine naturally contains solphites
36,00€
1 in stock
Description
There was a time when the concept of wine was to drink to get an overview and taste impression, now if you want to grasp it in its true essence and meaning, it is no longer enough just to taste it but you have to understand it. Muller Catoir wines are among the best in the world and reflect this vision. One of the oldest families in the winemaking world, they have always resided in Haardt in the Palatinate since as far back as the 1200s and have made Riesling their jewel. This wine region turns out to be in recent decades among the most curious to be discovered in Germany, it has typical landscape conditions with hills of rigid slope but warmer climates and nutrient-rich soils deriving straight and mineral wines where the vine has found exceptional dimensions thanks to natural protection from the cold of mountains and forests. The winery began its real production in 1744 managing about 25 hectares in the area’s most exalted vineyards distributed in the districts of Neustadt, Gimmeldingen and Mussbach cultivating only native varieties such as Riesling mainly, Muskateller, Pinot Blanc and Scheurebe with very old plants from which they derive wines of the highest level. Quality is innate in their philosophy, each step reflects old teachings handed down over time in perfect sequence, we are in the ninth generation with Francis David Catoir who is an active figure along with the family from the vineyard to the winery along with the expert figure of Martin Franzen. In the vineyard only incessant manual labor by means of certified organic treatments, thinning and seasonal harvests according to the type of wine desired between September and November, then in the cellar we continue with meticulous methods spontaneous vinification and aging in both steel tanks and wooden vats where the real key is rest with long periods before going into the bottle. Living legends for the myth and status they have managed to create toward themselves.
