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$31.50The Story
If Rothenberg is Gunderloch's muscle and Hipping its perfume, Pettenthal is the tightrope walker. This steep Nierstein grand cru sits on the same iron-red slate of the Roter Hang, but the soil here is finer and more broken-up, less geologically compressed than at neighboring Rothenberg. The wine follows the rock: more filigreed, more tense, all energy and mineral drive rather than sheer power. Johannes Hasselbach farms it organically and ferments spontaneously to total dryness, chasing that crushed-slate, saline finesse the site is known for. A grand cru for people who love their Riesling nervy and precise.
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If Rothenberg is Gunderloch's muscle and Hipping its perfume, Pettenthal is the tightrope walker. This steep Nierstein grand cru sits on the same iron-red slate of the Roter Hang, but the soil here is finer and more broken-up, less geologically compressed than at neighboring Rothenberg. The wine follows the rock: more filigreed, more tense, all energy and mineral drive rather than sheer power. Johannes Hasselbach farms it organically and ferments spontaneously to total dryness, chasing that crushed-slate, saline finesse the site is known for. A grand cru for people who love their Riesling nervy and precise.
