Riesling Purpur 2023

Name: Riesling Purpur 2023
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: kurtmuller-rieslingpurpur-2023-12.5%-750ml
Price: 65.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$65.00

Rheinhessen, Germany · White Wine · Light Bodied

Purpur borrows the old Greek name for porphyry, the volcanic stone that runs through the hills around Eckelsheim and gives this Riesling its spine. Andi Mann hand-harvests, ferments with the vineyard's own yeasts, and ages the wine in stainless steel and old wood, nothing that would blur the line the stone draws through it. The result is taut and stony: citrus, green apple and crushed rock, high, clean acidity, and a finish that reads more mineral than fruit. A Riesling that tastes of where it grew, best served cold and given a moment to open.

Pairing Suggestions

Tension rather than comfort, and it makes no apology for that.
Its acidity cuts chilli heat and richness at once: chilli crab, or fish head bee hoon.
Or oysters, with nothing on them but lemon.

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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