Qhimmel 2022

Name: Qhimmel 2022
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: weingutmann-graubgunderqhimmelwhitewine-2022-11.5%-750ml
Price: 75.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$75.00

Qhimmel takes its name from the local dialect for Himmel, sky or heaven, and the wine leans that way: lifted, open, unhurried. Grauburgunder off Andi Mann's organic vines at Eckelsheim in Rheinhessen, fermented on its skins with indigenous yeasts and aged twelve months in neutral oak so the fruit leads rather than the cellar. Bright orchard fruit, ripe tropical notes and a gentle herbal lift, held together by a clean line of acidity. The palate is fluid and airy, more about movement than weight. This is the first bottling of the 2022, and it drinks accordingly: immediate, easy, gone sooner than you meant it to be.

Pairing Suggestions

Airy, immediate, and gone before you have finished thinking about it.
Light grip and orchard fruit suit brothy things: yong tau foo, or laksa.
Or grilled vegetables, with more olive oil than seems reasonable.

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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