BERNHARD 2022 RIESLING SPATLESE HACKENHEIMER KIRCHBERG

This 600 year-old family estate is nominally in the Hessen but its soils, with their complex amalgam of porphyry, quarzite and loam, bear more resemblance to the Nahe, which is just over the hill. Hartmut Bernhard, the current proprietor, is an instinctive wine-grower and maker. He knows exactly what he is doing without intellectualising it. The estate has gone from strength to strength in recent years. This wine is a perennial hit at Bernhard, being the product of a special, small-berried clone of Riesling from 60 year-old vines.(WINEWISE)