Forster Pechstein Riesling trocken Grosse Lage - Weingut Margarethenhof

There are only a few vineyards in Germany grown on volcanic rock, and Forster Pechstein is one of them. This Riesling from Weingut Margarethenhof is the liquid portrait of this geological exception: saline, precise, cool, and possessed of a minerality that cannot be described, only felt.

On the nose, the wine opens with citrus stones, green apple, and a flinty note like freshly struck stone. Floral, cool, without a hint of sweetness, as if the aroma came directly from the rock.

On the palate, it is bone-dry, lean, and razor-sharp in its precision. A saline acidity gives the wine length, carried by a vibrant, almost electric minerality that does not end, but resonates.

The soil is anything but accidental: dark basalt from the Pechsteinkopf, a dormant volcanic vent directly above the vines. This black rock retains heat like almost no other soil in the Palatinate, slowly releasing it back to the vines. This creates a microclimate that is almost unique in Germany.

After selective hand-harvesting, the wine is aged quietly, with light pressing, skin contact on the press, and long lees aging until July of the following year.

A Palatinate Riesling for purists. Volcanic, uncompromising, long.

Organic from the 2024 vintage.