Bernhard 2019 Frei-Laubersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling Kabinett feinherb

Importer Notes: This 600 year-old family estate is nominally in the Hessen but its soils, with their complex amalgam of porphyry, quarzite and loam, bear more resemblance to the Nahe, which is just over the hill. Hartmut Bernhard, the current proprietor, is an instinctive wine-grower and maker. He knows exactly what he is doing without intellectualising it. The estate has gone from strength to strength in recent years. Hartmut’s interpretation of the notion of “feinherb” is a liberal one! The sweetness level here is what you might expect in another producer’s “normal” Kabinett. Endowed with a freakish degree of minerality from the quarzite soils of the Rheingrafenberg, this wine over-delivers in every department.