2023 Schwedhelm Riesling Trocken, Pfalz, Germany
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ABOUT THIS WINE
The Riesling Zellertal grows in young, south-facing plots in the Kreuzberg and Schwarzer Herrgott vineyards. The soil here consists of clay and marl with significant limestone inclusions. Before the main harvest, the grapes were pre-selected by the winemakers. After a short maceration period, the grapes were pressed and spontaneously fermented in cooled stainless steel tanks. After seven months of lees aging, the wine was bottled.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
Weingut Schwedhelm is a family estate in Zellertal, at the far northern edge of Germany’s Pfalz. The modern estate traces its commercial wine production to the 1950s. Bernhard and Gisela Schwedhelm, moved the operation out of the village center and began estate-bottling their wines.
The major transformation came with the next generation. Stephan Schwedhelm, after training as a winemaker and studying at Geisenheim, took responsibility for the cellar in 2006. His brother Georg, who studied business in Mannheim, joined him in 2012. Together they dramatically refocused the estate around terroir, lower yields, fewer grape varieties and a much more precise, dry style of wine. Stephan describes his approach as minimal intervention—not avoiding technology altogether, but using it to protect the wine rather than manipulate its character. The goal is to let the vineyard dictate the wine.