Wine Louis Guntrum, Pinot Noir, Rheinhessen QbA, 2016
Tasting Notes
Wine of deep purple-ruby color with a beautiful shine.
The taste of wine is balanced, soft, voluminous, fruity, with rounded tannins. Sustained aftertaste with notes of red berries.
Fruity and spicy aroma of the wine is filled with notes of raspberry and cherry, nuances of sweet spices and black pepper.
Wine is recommended to combine with rich and fatty dishes, game, roast. Also excellent in its pure form.
Interesting Facts
Dry red wine Louis Guntrum, Pinot Noir created from the same-grape variety grown on lime-clay soils plots located on the slopes of Reinhessen. The yield of the vineyards is moderate, the viticultural principles are close to the natural. Hand-picked grapes are carefully pressed, then placed in steel tankers, where they undergo alcoholic fermentation at 25 ° C. Wine matures in oak barrels for several months.
Producer's description
In 2003, the winery Louis Guntrum was headed by a representative of the eleventh generation of the Guntrum family - Louis Konstantin Guntrum. There is documentary evidence that on May 15, 1545, Emperor Charles V bestowed the coat of arms on the Guntrum family, and in 1648, the Guthrum family cultivated grapes and made wine in the small village of Reinhessen. Today, the company owns 15 hectares of vineyards, in which unique terroirs Nirsteiner and Openheim. The red slopes of the plots in Niersteiner give rise to amazing Riesling - with fine minerality and an elegant body. Each year, the winery produces about 150,000 bottles of standard volume wine.
