Müller-Catoir Bürgergarten Im Breumel Riesling Grosses Gewächs 2022
£65.45
The wine
Concentrated Riesling fruit of Asian pear and mandarin with a lingering minerality. Delicate and elegant, finely balanced, with an intricately woven, long finish.
Im Breumel is the uppermost and finest parcel of the Bürgergarten at Haardt, a walled monopole owned solely by Müller-Catoir and preserved for centuries. Facing south-east at 180 to 190 metres, it warms quickly in the morning and cools fast after sunset beside the forest, on deep mottled sandstone gravel. Grosses Gewächs is the VDP's designation for a dry wine from a classified great vineyard. Hand picked and fermented cool in stainless steel. Certified organic.
The producer
Weingut Müller-Catoir
View all Weingut Müller-Catoir winesMüller-Catoir has been in the same family since 1744, when Johann Wilhelm Catoir founded the estate at Haardt, on the edge of the Palatinate Forest above Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Philipp David Catoir, the ninth generation, runs it today with cellar master Dominik Leyrer. The estate is a member of the VDP and farms its 25 hectares organically, with every wine made only from its own vineyards.
The soils are the story here: Haardt sandstone, clay, loess, limestone and the Ice Age gravels of Mussbach, spread across sites such as Bürgergarten, Herzog, Mandelgarten and Vogelsang. Riesling leads, alongside Weissburgunder, Spätburgunder, Scheurebe, Muskateller and the rare Rieslaner. Hand harvesting, slow fermentations and late bottling give wines of finesse, minerality and quiet precision, and one of the most individual voices in the Pfalz.
