Weiss Mischkultur 2023

Name: Weiss Mischkultur 2023
Brand: Weingut Mann
SKU: weingutmann-weissmischkultur-2023-11%-750ml
Price: 60.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$60.00

Rheinhessen, Germany · White Wine · Light Bodied

Mischkultur, mixed cultivation, is the old way of planting a vineyard: several varieties grown together, picked together, and fermented as one. Andi Mann keeps that tradition alive in Eckelsheim, co-fermenting his white grapes into a single wine that carries more complexity than any one of them could alone. Orchard and citrus fruit, a little wax and herb, a gently textured palate carried by fresh acidity. A field blend in the truest sense: unpolished, characterful, and made to be drunk rather than analysed.

Pairing Suggestions

A field blend, meaning the vineyard set the recipe rather than anybody else.
Its mixed character suits a mixed table: nasi lemak, or a spread of small dishes.
Or soft cheese and roast vegetables, with bread to deal with what is left.

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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