Silvaner 2022

Name: Silvaner 2022
Brand: Weingut Weigand
SKU: weingutgastehausweigand-silvaner-2022-11%-750ml
Price: 60.00 SGD
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Silvaner is Franken's grape, and Andi Weigand's is a good argument for taking it seriously. He works ten Naturland-certified hectares at Iphofen, farmed organically and biodynamically, with the old vines here doing most of the talking. Naturally fermented and left a long time on its lees, which is where the weight comes from, then bottled without fining or filtration and with no added sulphur. Pear and quince, a chalky mineral line, a saline grip at the close. Crisp and clean without being simple, and happy at the table rather than only before it.

Pairing Suggestions

Old-vine Silvaner, which is Franken's real argument for itself.
Its lees texture handles sour-spiced broths: gaeng som, or asam pedas.
Or roast pork knuckle, with something sharp cutting through it.

Technical Details

Country: Germany
Region: Franken
Type: White wine
Grape variety: Silvaner
ABV: 11,5%
Bottle size: 0,75 l

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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