German Wine Tasting

Thursday, April 24th | 5-8pm

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German Wine Tasting

Wines:

- Corvers-Kauter, Silvaner 2021, Rheingau

- Georg Mosbacher, Riesling Trocken 2021, Pfalz

- Philipp Kuhn, Grauer Burgunder 'Vom Loess' 2017, Pfalz

Price: $18.00

The Corvers and Kauter families between them have five hundred years of winegrowing history in the Rheingau, one of the world’s most iconic wine regions. Now led by Dr Matthias and Brigitte Corvers, whose family comes from Rudesheim, their 12 hectares of gravity-defying organic vineyards are planted around the villages of Oestrich and Winkel in the traditional manner on the steep banks of the Rhine. The vast majority of their vines are Riesling, with some Pinot Noir and a smattering of the very rare Roter Riesling, whose pinkish berries are the result of a colour mutation, and usually bunches feature both pink and white grapes. Oestrich-Winkel is its heartland, with Corvers-Kauter one of just a handful of producers in Germany and Austria still harvesting it.

In 1921 Richard Mosbacher Snr. (1898-1977) founded the current estate together with his sisters and named it after their father Georg: 'Weingut Georg Mosbacher Erben' (Wine estate of Georg Mosbacher's heirs). The curved 'M' which decorates our wine labels up to this day goes back to these first years. Richard Mosbacher Jnr. took over responsibility for the cellars when his father Richard - a declared anti-Nazi - was appointed mayor by the Americans after the end of the Second World War.

Over several decades Richard Mosbacher turned the estate into what it is today: one of high reputation and prestige. As of 1992 the next generation, Sabine Mosbacher-Düringer and her husband Jürgen, helped him in this task and the size of the estate has since expanded to its present 20 hectares (54.36 US acres) of cultivated vineyards. The commitment to quality led to the estate joining the VDP in 1993. In the meantime Sabine and Jürgen are managing the estate and safeguarding its reputation as one of the best wineries in the Palatinate.

As a 20-year-old PHILIPP KUHN was solely responsible for the wine making and for the vineyards in his parents' estate. With the 1992 he delivered his first vintage. As a relatively young winemaker, he can therefore call himself an old hand in the industry after already mastering 27 vintages, who made his contribution to the success of “Germany's small wine miracle”. The basis of success is, in addition to the right gut feeling and sensitivity for vineyards and viticulture, above all the considerable portfolio of highly decorated individual sites. They are the foundation that gives the distinctive Philipp Kuhn wines their profile and character. It is the primeval, rugged limestone that gives the Northern Palatinate its defining image.

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Wineries:

- Weingut Corvera-Kauter

- Weingut Georg Mosbacher

- Weingut Philipp Kuhn

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Importer: wUst Fine Wine Imports

Rep.: Kevin Wenck