Cuvee Rötlich "Mischkultur" 2022

Name: Cuvee Rötlich "Mischkultur" 2022
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: weingutmann-cuveerotlich-2022-11.5%-750ml
Price: 60.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$60.00

Rheinhessen, Germany · Red Wine · Light Bodied

Rotlich means, simply, reddish, an honest description of a wine that sits somewhere between a light red and a deep rosé and refuses to pick a side. Andi Mann farms organically in Eckelsheim and makes this in the least interventionist way he can: whole fruit, native yeasts, nothing added and nothing stripped out. Bright red berries, cranberry and cherry skin, a whisper of herbs, and soft, barely-there tannins. Serve it with a proper chill; it is a wine for warm evenings and second glasses rather than contemplation.

Pairing Suggestions

Barely any tannin, so chilli will not turn it bitter: char siew or otak-otak.
Or charcuterie and roast vegetables, eaten somewhere outdoors.

About Weingut Mann

Andi Mann is the latest of a family that has made wine at Eckelsheim since 1699, though he works in a way his ancestors would barely recognise. His ten hectares sit in the steep, forested hills of southern Rheinhessen, on a patchwork of sand, limestone, porphyry and volcanic stone, and he farms them organically and biodynamically, convinced that the health of the vineyard decides everything that follows.

In the cellar Andi does as little as he can. Fermentations run on native yeasts, the wines rest a long time in large old oak, and nothing is fined or filtered before bottling. Two soils recur in the names on his labels: the limestone he calls Calx and the porphyry he calls Purpur.

The range runs from sessionable rosés and light reds to taut, mineral Rieslings and textured skin-contact whites. What ties them together is clarity and energy, and a clear sense of the cool northern place they come from.

Photos taken by Daniel Koh

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