This Riesling is light yellow in colour. The nose is fresh and lively with white stone fruit, spice and pear. The palate is intense, with a long mineral streak, peach and pear fruit and firm, refreshing acidity that is benchmark riesling from this area.
Excellent spicy food and blue cheeses.
Pechstein lies on the gentle east facing slope that extends from behind hte village of Forst up toward the Haardt Mountains. The name refers to the preponderance of black balsalt sontes in the soil, which give the wines a strong mineral backbone.The wine presents itself with wonderful mineral aromas, intense fruit, high density, light notes of ripe fruit and a long finish.
Aromas reminiscent of ripe apple , tangerine , lime, white pepper, nutmeg, mace and flint stone. Light, vibrant, fresh and juicy with refreshing acidity and a complex, mineral and lasting finish.
Light in colour with green reflexes. The fruity, elegant nose is rich and medium-bodied, with aromas of ripe fruits. The palate is elegant, very well-balanced, and full of yellow fruit character before a long finish.