MTH 2022

Name: MTH 2022
Brand: Weingut Weigand
SKU: weingutgastehausweigand-mth-2022-11%-750ml
Price: 60.00 SGD
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Franconia, Germany · White wine

MTH is Müller-Thurgau, a grape nobody takes seriously, off vines sixty years old, which is where Andi Weigand starts making his point. He farms ten Naturland-certified hectares at Iphofen in Franken and treats the vineyard as a single organism rather than a set of rows. This is pressed on a basket press from the 1920s and fermented in sixty-year-old oak, old wood and old vines left to get on with it. Unfiltered, no sulphur added. Pear and white blossom, a little waxy texture, and the quiet depth that comes of asking an underrated grape to do more than it usually gets asked. Cold, and without ceremony.

Pairing Suggestions

Müller-Thurgau taken seriously, which happens far less often than it should.
Light and floral, it suits Thai herbs: som tam, or a plate of miang kham.
Or a young cheese, with radishes and salt.

About Weingut Weigand

Andi Weigand was not especially interested in wine to begin with. What changed his mind were the old vines already sitting in the family vineyards at Iphofen, in Franken, and what he thought could be done with them if somebody left them alone. He now works ten hectares there, certified organic under Naturland and farmed biodynamically, on the principle that the vineyard is a single organism rather than a set of rows.

In the cellar he adds as little as possible. Most of the range goes into bottle with no sulphur and no filtration at all. The Silvaner comes off vines more than fifty years old, ferments naturally and then sits a long time on its lees, which is where its weight comes from. There is a white cuvée too, blending Silvaner with Müller-Thurgau, Scheurebe, Weissburgunder and Bacchus.

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