Weltachs wines
Top Pfalz White Wines
RIESLING
RIVANER aka MÜLLER-THURGAU
GRAUBURGUNDER (Pinot gris/Pino grigio
GEWÜRZTRAMINER
SCHEUREBE and HUXELREBE
Riesling
Current Vintage: 2021
Grape: Riesling (100%)
Tasting Notes: Off Dry, crisp, light yellow color with aromas of green apple, and citrus including grapefruit with a hint of roses.
Pairing suggestions: Freshwater and salt water fish, seafood, sushi, light flesh poultry, salads such as seafood, chicken, egg salad, and white- and pink flesh meats such as veal, pork, small game, also egg dishes and creamy pastas. Mildly-spiced smoked or cured meats ham, turkey, mild and medium cheeses.
Serving Temperature: Serve cool at about / 6’ – 8’C/46’ – 50’F
Technical Data: Appelation: Pfalz Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 3 – 6 years under proper storage conditions
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 12.5% vol; Acidity: 6.5 ppm; Rediual Sugar: 11.7 ppm
Spätlese – Late Harvest Selection
Current Vintage: 2021
Grapes include: Kerner (100%)
Tasting notes: Ripe, medium-sweet, fulsome wine with some tropic fruit like banana underlying basic green apple and rich yellow grapefruit, with a slightly more intense light yellow color.
Pairing suggestions: More robust fish and full-bodied seafood dishes baked, sautéed, fried, roasted poultry,
creamed dishes, veal and fruit-based desserts.
Serving Temperature: Serve chilled, about 6’ – 8’C/46’ -50’F
Technical Data: Appelation: Pfalz Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 2 – 6 years in proper storage conditions
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 10.0% vol; Acidity: 6.8 ppm; Residual Sugar: 49.3 ppm
Auslese: Fully Ripened Cluster Selection
Current Vintage: 2020
Grapes include: Kerner and Grauer Burgunder (Pinot gris) and others in varying proportions based on vintage characteristics
Tasting Notes: A light golden color with lemon, bright red cherry and mango aromas and succinctly grape-flavor with a fine balance of sweetness and acidity, fresh and crisp
Pairing Suggestions: Excellent with pungent cheeses as Gorgonzola, Blue, Stilton, Roquefort, also Pâtés and spreads, oysters, creamy desserts, crême brûlée, panna cotta, very spicy cuisines as Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Szechuan and Hunan Chinese... or just plain slow-sipping
Serving temperature: Serve cool about 6’ – 8’C/46’ – 50’F
Technical data: Appelation: Pfalz Ageing Process: Ready to drink now or store another 1 till 3 years for more mature ageing.
Longevity: 5 – 7 years under proper conditions
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 10.0% vol; Acidity: 6.5 ppm; Residual Sugar: 79.2 ppm
Eiswein
Current Vintage: 2018
Ice Wine is made from ultra-ripe and healthy grapes harvested, crushed and vinified in a frozen state with the season’s first deep-frost with temperatures at -8’C about 19’F . Harvest takes place after midnight in the cold
est hours of the pre-dawn morning. It is extremely arduous work.
Eiswein is not an annual treat. Some winters are too warm, or grapes are not thoroughly, uniformly frozen or fr
ee of Botrytis, the noble rot or poiriture, that differentiates Eiswein from the intensely-flavored Berry or Dried Raisin Berry nectar-like wines. The juice within the grape is concentrated as ice crystals further intensifying the flavor of these last-hanging grapes of the vintage...
speed is of the essence getting the clusters to the crusher and into the fermentation vats before they melt and are unusable.
Grape Type: Gewürztraminer (100%)
Current Vintage: 2016
Tasting notes: Intense black currants, peach and strawberry notes, extremely intense yet light and fresh, good acidity to balance the sweetness, very clear, light gold in color.
Pairing suggestions: This luxury dessert wine can accompany spicy soups, fruit based desserts, but is often just perfect by itself
Serving temperature: about 6’ – 8’C/46’ – 50’F
Technical Data: Appelation: Wachenheimer Schenkenböhl, Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 3 – 10 years with proper storage conditions
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 8.0% vol; Acidity: 6.8 ppm; Residual Sugar: 139.1 ppm
Pinot Noir Blanc de Noir Eiswein
is a singular rarity – an intensely-flavored white Ice Wine made from the red Pinot Noir (Spätburgunder) grape.
This is a luxury class dessert wine which can be served as an apéritif. Just like other Ice Wines, it is harvested and produced in a frozen state, HOWEVER, extraordinary care must be taken to assure that the juice has fast free-flow into the fermentation tank avoiding all contact with the color-bearing grape skins.The color is an intense, deep gold.
Grape Type: Spätburgunder aka Pinot Noir (100%)
Current Vintage: 2018
Tasting notes: Intense red berry flavors with notes of tropical fruits mango, guava
Pairing suggestions: As an appetizer alone unto itself, or as an apéritif or with chocolate-based desserts or fruit tortes or alone as a dessert
Serving temperature: 6’ – 8’C/46’ – 50’F
Technical Data: Appellation: Wachenheimer Mandelgarten, Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 3 - 10 years (minimum) with proper storage
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 8.5% vol.; Acidity: 9.8 ppm; Residual Sugar: 151.4 ppm
Beerenauslese
Single Berry Selection from Botrytis-affected vines
Grape Type: Grapes used include Ortgea, Huxelrebe and other white varietals; depending on the vintage, individual berries plucked from over-ripe clusters produce tiny yields
Current Vintage: 2021
Tasting notes:Rich gold color with strong spice flavors of nutmeg, allspice, a bit of cinnamon, cardamon, and herbs, very intense nose with a strong muscatel and candied fruit flavor
Pairing suggestions: Desserts of all sorts and also matches very will with all kind spicy foods (hot pot, blue cheese etc).
Serving Temperature: Serve cool at 6’ – 8’C/46’ – 50’F
Technical Data: Appellation: Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity:3 – 7 years with proper storage
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 9.5% vol.; Acidity: 8.4 ppm; Residual Sugar: 137.3 ppm
Trockenbeerenauslese
Dried, Raisin Berry Selection of single grapes from Botrytis–afflicted clusters. Truly a rare nectar made by plucking the dried, raisinated grapes from fully-botrytised bunches. A solitary drop or two or three is extracted from each single grape, an entire vine’s cluster yield is needed to produce a single 375 ml bottle! A liter of juice can contain 200 grams or more of residual sugar in liquid form. With so much residual sugar, alcohol levels are very low, 6.5 - 9.5 % or even lower...
Grape Type: Huxelrebe (100%)
Current Vintage: 2022
Tasting notes: "Liquid sunshine,“ deep golden yellow, thick, highly viscous juices clinging to the sides of the glass, extraordinary sweetness, flavors of honey, overripe melon, litchie, occasionally mango, passion fruit, durian
Pairing suggestions: Serve with pungent cheeses and dense desserts, or simply as dessert itself.
Serving temperature: Serve very cool, 6’ – 8’C/46’ - 50’F or under
Technical Data: Appellation: Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 4 - 10 years with proper storage
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 9.5% vol.; Acidity: 8.5 ppm; Residual Sugar: 182.3 ppm
Rosé Wines
Grape Type: Portugieser (100%)
Current
Vintage: 2021
Tasting notes: Very bright red color with a shimmering orange – gold reflection, finely-delineated fruit flavors redolent of red raspberry and cherries, with a reasonable residual sugar.
Pairing suggestions: given its hardly-perceptable acidity and bright flavors, Weltachs Rosé may well be the perfect choice for ‘round the clock enjoyment to be an accompaniment for salads of all sorts – greens, vegetable, seafood, chicken, steak, ham, tabouleh, quinoa, couscous and other grains… a natural for sandwiches even spiced meats and Italian style delicatessen.
Goes well with deep-fried foods as chicken, calamari, clams, onion rings, and broccoli, cauliflower, mushroom caps, stuffed jalapeños as well as sliders, barbecue or ribs.
Matches well with fruit, cookies, and nonchocolate dessert and for simple sipping on its own as a pre-lunch apéritif, afternoon or evening refresher. Perfect for picnics, the beach, on the porch or terrace – or even with Christmas baked goods.
Serving temperature: Very cool to somewhat cold depending on the time of year, 5’ – 7’C/42’F – 48’F
Technical Data: Appellation: Dirmsteiner Schwarzerde, Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 2 – 3 years... being irresistible, it probably will be drunk up prior to any cellaring...
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 11.5% vol.; Acidity: 6.0 ppm; Residual Sugar: 26.7 ppm
Top Pfalz Red Wines
DORNFELDER
PORTUGIESER
SPÄTBURGUNDEER or PINOT NOIR
Dornfelder
is an off dry red wine made exclusively from the Dornfelder grape using heat extraction methods to obtain maximum color intensity and suppress extraction of bitterness.
Grape Type: Dornfelder (100%)
Current Vintage: 2022
Tasting notes: Ruby red in color, this Dornfelder is mild and fruity with balanced sweetness and acidity tasting of strawberry and dark cherry, off dry.No-Tanin, easy drinking red wine for almost every occasion!
Pairing suggestions: A basic drinking red which pairs well with virtually all meats, most firm or aged cheeses, casseroles, and tomato-based sauces thanks to very low acidity and slight sweetness. An excellent choice for everyday enjoyment.
Serving temperature: slightly chilled or cool around 9’ – 11C/52’F – 56’F
Technical Data: Appellation: Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 3 – 5 years with proper storage
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 11.5% vol.; Acidity: 5.3 ppm; Residual Sugar: 23.8 ppm
Red October
The Wine, not the Submarine!!!
Grape Type: A blend from Dornfelder and Regent
Current Vintage: 2021
A sweet dessert wine whose “top secret“ proportion blend is known only to ourselves, this smooth taste treat is made from red grapes, Dornfelder and Regent. It is specially vinified for minimum tannins and maximum extraction.
Tasting notes: A good choice for spicy meats and highly-seasoned preparations, and as either an apéritif or dessert wine with its deep darker strawberry, dark cherry and blueberry flavors
Pairing suggestions: A perfect match with all kind of desserts such as vanilla ice cream or a perfect match with a bit spicy BBQ chicken or roasts!
Serving temperature: Rather cool at 6’ – 8’C/46’F – 50’F
Technical Data: Appellation: Pfalz. Ageing Process: Ready to drink now.
Longevity: 3 – 5 years under proper conditions
Analytic Data: Alcohol: 8.0% vol.; Acidity: 5.6 ppm; Residual Sugar: 82.4 ppm