Ökonomierat Rebholz

Nine days into the new year and we're already sticking our noses into the sparkling wine again. Is that hedonistic cheek on our part or a commendable discipline in making good our new year's resolution number 2? Actually, it's neither, since this is a postscript to our new year's eve.

Lively, but not over-strong bubbles, a smell of ripe apples and quince. Bone dry and almost austere at first taste, but at the same time fairly creamy and intense, with the tiniest hint of oak maybe, and in the end, it's mature quince and apple fruit again, maybe also a hint of tangerine, with very fresh acidity all the way through.

Very dark straw colour, a tinge of gold

Smells of peaches and pineapples pickled in petroleum (there's German white wine for you...), marzipan, dried herbs, and smoke. Reminded me somewhat of the more powerful Grüne Veltliners. [read the full post...]

Pinard de Picard promised something extraordinary: "Bereits dieser herrliche Kabinett demonstriert ausdrücklich, dass im Bereich der Weißburgunder niemand in Deutschland bessere Weine machen kann als Hansjörg Rebholz. Bravo!" - perhaps a little too much credit for this wine.

A pinot blanc with a fresh nose and not unpleasant to drink, apple and nut, mineral too - you can see why they compare it to a Riesling. Sadly, it is a little too acidic for my somewhat sensitive stomach. Having said that, it was still enjoyable, but could not stand up to the great announcement. But you will not go wrong if you like dry acidity.