Left Continue shopping
Your Order

You have no items in your cart

  • Home
    • /Previous Page
Bottle of Gunderloch Rheinhessen Riesling Trocken Vom Roten Schiefer 2021-White Wine-Flatiron SF

Gunderloch Rheinhessen Riesling Trocken Vom Roten Schiefer 2021

White Wine from Rheinhessen, Germany
by Gunderloch
$18.99
Get 10% off purchases of 12+ bottles of wine.
(Use code 10OFF at checkout.)

We have run out of stock for this item.

Gunderloch’s “Vom Roten Schiefer” is a dry Riesling from red slate soils in Nackenheim’s grand cru sites, including Rothenberg. Organically farmed and spontaneously fermented, it’s vinified with a touch of skin contact for added texture.

The 2021 is brisk and mineral, with firm acidity and herbal lift. A precise, stony wine that reflects the power and finesse of Rheinhessen’s red slope terroir.

YOUR DELIVERY OPTIONS:

  • Same Day Delivery Call us at 415-780-1405 for more details.



The Rheinhessen is Germany's largest wine region and encompasses both majority it of it's bulk wine production AND it's very finest wines, like those of Keller "The German Montrachet".

Gunderloch is one of it's other top estates, and thanks to the forward thinking, hard working Johannes Hasselbach, is only getting better. He's pulled the wines into the modern era, making them first in the vineyards, which have been practicing organic for more than 5 years.

His goals are lofty, from reducing residual sugar and alcohol, quite a feat in the new age of climate change, adding complexity with spontaneous fermentation, moving away from purely reductive techniques by incorporating used barrels with longer maturation and playing with skin contact.

Of course it helps to have a host of desirable vineyard sites with which to work from including "Roter Hang", Rheinhessen's notorious red slope vineyard, along with a host of other grand cru's including Rothenberg, Niersteiner Pettenthal and Niersteiner Hipping.

In the hands of Johannes these sites are able to produce wines that have gained notoriety for their exceptional balance, grace, and filigreed nuance.

Professional Reviews

Robert Parker

RP 88
"From the Rothenberg, Pettenthal and Hipping "grand crus" and vinified in stainless steel until late winter, the 2021 Riesling trocken vom Roten Schiefer offers a clear, pure and refined, bright and flinty Riesling bouquet with notes of red stones. Light but lush and round on the palate, this is an elegant, refined and crystalline as well as saline dry Riesling bottled with 12% stated alcohol. An excellent estate wine with the red slope character. Screw-cap closure." -Stephan Reinhardt

Wine Spectator

WS 88
"A taut version, with a linear feel to the green apple and crunchy nectarine flavors on a bedrock of minerality. Chiseled and almost austere, this is for fans of the racy style."

Wine Enthusiast

WE 88
"Moderate flavors of dried peach and lemon oil surround a firm mineral core in this sleek Riesling. It's intense in acidity, which extends on the finish." -Aleks Zecevic

What importer Bowler Wine has to say about this wine...

Very dry at just 3.5g/l RS. Sourced from Gunderloch's three grand cru sites (Rothenberg, Pettenthal, Hipping), spontaneously fermented and vinified in steel. Red slate (roten schiefer) coats the tongue and flourishes its herbal, spice-scented signature. 12hrs of skin contact also lends the wine a touch of tannin and phenolic tension that makes this a bracing, refreshing experience.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Riesling

  • Vintage

    2021

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Earthy , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied