Wine Muller-Catoir, "Mandelring" Scheurebe, 2017
Tasting Notes
Wine golden yellow.
The wine has a very elegant taste with excellent minerality, excellent salinity, subtle nuances of juicy grapefruit, hints of lychee and a fantastic, long, rich finish.
The seductive aroma of the wine is filled with notes of fresh grapefruit and ripe lime.
Wine can be served as an aperitif, ideally combined with casseroles, vegetables and cheeses. Suitable for vegans.
Interesting Facts
"Mandelring" Scheurebe is a seductive white wine with an exciting minerality and excellent fruit flavors in taste and aroma. Scheurebe grapes for the production of this wine are grown in the Palatinate region, in the Mandelring (Almond Ring) vineyard near the village of Haardt. This vineyard with loamy gravel soils and southern orientation is classified as Erste Lage, which corresponds to the French Premiere Crewe. Age of vines is 45 years. Harvested by hand and carefully selected. Fermentation and aging of wine are held in steel tanks. Vintage 2017 can be drunk now or stored until 2028.
Producer's description
Muller-Catoir - an old winery at the foot of the mountains Haardt, since 1744 belonging to the family Muller-Catoire. For more than 100 years, the winery was run exclusively by women of the family, and now it is headed by a representative of the ninth generation of the family - Philip David Catoire. Vineyards of the Muller-Catoire farm, certified as organic, cover an area of 20 hectares; 70% lies on the plateau, and 30% on the slopes. Wines Muller-Catoire surprisingly rich, concentrated, with bright fruit acidity. All wines are made from the farm's own harvest. Yield restriction, great attention to soil care and selective manual harvesting in small batches explain the intensity, ripe acidity and pure varietal character of wines, even small vintages of which always possess wealth and high quality.
