Herr Kretz 2021

Name: Herr Kretz 2021
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: weingutmann-rieslingherrkretz-2021-12%-750ml
Price: 85.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$85.00

Rheinhessen, Germany · Skin contact / Orange Wine · Light Bodied

Herr Kretz is the serious end of what Andi Mann makes, a Riesling off his best Eckelsheim parcels bottled only when the vintage justifies it. Organic fruit, wild-yeast fermentation, and as little done in the cellar as he can manage, on the principle that texture and balance arrive on their own if you let them. The 2021 is the cooler, tighter vintage, and it behaves accordingly: subtle fruit, savoury undertones and a grounded, mineral core, unfolding slowly rather than all at once. Good now with air, but a few years in the cellar will be repaid with depth it is still holding back.

Pairing Suggestions

The younger Kretz, still tightly wound and quite happy about it.
Its acidity slices through fried food: har mee, or crisp fried tofu with chilli.
Or smoked eel, and bread with a lot of butter.

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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