D.B. Schmitt - Zold 2020

D.B. Schmitt - Zold 2020

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Country: Germany

Region: Rheinhessen

Grape: Silvaner

Viticulture: Biodynamic Farming and Natural Wine

Wine making: Hand harvested grapes are destemmed and go through a 4 week maceration in fiberglass tanks. Indigenous yeasts used with ambient temperatures for fermentation in oak barrels. Natural malolactic fermentation occurs before being bottled unfined, unfiltered with a very small addition of SO2.  

Delicate fruity notes on the nose, on the palate much more intensity with a rounded texture balanced by acidity and minerality (which Sylvaner expressed particularly well on these soils).

The Schmitt winery has been in the family for over 230 years with Bianka and Daniel working their 16 hectares for the last decade. They work in full biodynamics which they learned from Alsace vigneron Patrick Meyer and are one of only 80 producers in Germany to be Demeter certified. The Rheinhessen is one of the driest of all German regions and Wonnegau belongs to the sunniest and driest part of it. The most important vineyards of called Frauenberg and Goldberg, where very large limestone pieces form a bedrock under 30-40 cm of loess and clay. 16 hectares are spread over numerous parcels in three different villages: Florsheim-Dalsheim; Monsheim and Kriegsheim. The maximum elevation of the vineyard in 230 m above sea level.

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