Weingut Köster Wolf

Weingut Köster Wolf is a family estate at Flonheim in Rheinhessen, working the rolling hill country south-west of Mainz.

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest wine region and for decades was its least respected, since it produced most of the Liebfraumilch that flooded export markets in the 1970s and 80s. That reputation has been comprehensively overturned by a generation of young growers, and the region now produces some of the most exciting wine in the country. The landscape is gentler than the Mosel or Rheingau, with vineyards on low hills rather than cliffs, and the climate is warmer and drier.

Flonheimer Rothenpfad is the estate's site, and halbtrocken means half-dry: between 9 and 18 grams of residual sugar per litre, the traditional German middle ground that suits Riesling's high acidity particularly well.