2022 UNGEHEUER Riesling GG

Price from September 1, 2024: 39.00€

A typical GG from Forst with mineral, spicy strength and a rounded finish.

The site Forster Ungeheuer is one of the most distinctive and well-known vineyards of the palatinate. There powerful and long-lasting wines with a spicy minerality are produced. When Reich Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck visited Deidesheim at the end of the 1880s as a guest of the Vice President of the Reichstag, the owner of the winery Franz Armand Buhl, he said: "This Ungeheuer tastes monstrous to me." Von Buhl is the sole owner of the original plot Ungeheuer, which served as eponyms for the VDP.Große Lage.

The 2022 vintage is juicy and fruity on the one hand and spicy and quite savory on the other. On the
palate, the dark, cool minerality that is typical of the Forster vineyards is typical of the Forster sites.

Soil:
Complex, this is the best description of the soil structure in the much vaunted site in the Mittelhaardt: typical sandstone weathering soils with more dense clay and sand layers, partially offset with amounts of limestone. Basalt rock provides the vines with the necessary heat and mineral character. A massive limestone plate at a depth of approx. 2 m provides a very efficient water supply. The sum of all factors is the reason for the power and length of the wines from the Ungeheuer.