Schumann Nägler Riesling Geisenheimer Mönchspfad 2019
From one of Germany's most known wine regions, here is a pure Riesling which reflects in quite a pleasant way the terroir where it was produced. Traditional for the Rhine hills are strong mineral Rieslings allied with refreshing citrus and this Schumann Nägler is not an exception.. Even though there is a strong minerality which gives us an almost sparkling feeling, in this case the citrus are predominant, revealing themselves particularly green with a lime scent absolutely refreshing. For a long time I have reserved the seasons of the year to different kinds of wine. The perspective of having a white wine in the middle of the winter sounded for me as some sort of deadly sin as well as having a glass of red wine in the warm Portuguese south sounded like the last of options. Till the moment came that a German producer at a wine fair in Hamburg has tried to convince me wrong. He argued that I should rather focus on what I want to pair the wine with and, in his particular...