Herr Kretz 2020

Name: Herr Kretz 2020
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: weingutmann-rieslingherrkretz-2020-13%-750ml
Price: 85.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$85.00

Rheinhessen, Germany · White Wine · Light Bodied

Herr Kretz is Andi Mann's serious Riesling, drawn from his best parcels at Eckelsheim and made only in the vintages that earn it. Farming is organic, the fermentation spontaneous, and the winemaking kept deliberately quiet, since Andi's instinct is to watch rather than intervene. The 2020 has had time to settle, and it shows: muted orchard fruit and dried herbs over a savoury, earthy base, the structure resolved and the freshness still carrying through a long finish. This is the one drinking best of the recent run, composed and unhurried. It will hold, but it does not ask you to wait.

Pairing Suggestions

Its waxy depth handles fermented flavour: kimchi jjigae or ikan pekasam.
Or a roast bird, and the juices spooned over something starchy.

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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