Gunderloch
For Johannes Hasselbach's 'A Piece of Me', he decided to push an imaginary reset button and look back at how his grandparents made wine. The focus is on the grapes and he wants to use every part of them (e.g. long maceration time on fully crushed grapes up to 72 hours; minimal clarification; natural yeast fermentation; long time on lees) but he also wants to make sure not to lose or alter anything (no artificial yeasts, no fining nor aromatisation of any kind). 100% healthy fruit comes from young vines in the top site Nackenheimer Rothenberg, blended with grapes from a parcel of 35-year-old vines from Hipping in Nierstein to create a tautly strung wine with extraordinary aromatic expression.
December, 2021
Gourmet Traveller WINE
‘As though it were a piece of me’ is the name of this heady and perfumed Riesling from Johannes Hasselbach. Scented with white blossom-like aromas of citrus zest, fresh pear and green apple skin, it reveals slightly leesy and funky nuances of schist and mineral. Piercingly intense, it’s long and streamlined, delivering a complex, rather wild core of flavour down a fine, slatey undercarriage that culminates in a dry and delightfully brittle finish.
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