O Produtor, tasting note published in November 17th 2023
The Royale is the introduction to our Chardonnays. The wood is subtly accentuated during aging on fine lees in tonneaux. The concentrated flavors show a slight exoticism with green banana, physalis, and orange peel, as well as a delicate buttery note. Savory acidity and a fine saltiness give the Royale freshness and elegance.
The intensive and sustainable work in the vineyards allows us to harvest highly aromatic and healthy grapes.
This valuable fruit is vinified with great patience and untreated in our historic cellar. We ferment our slightly cloudy musts without artificial cooling in oak barrels of different sizes, using their indigenous yeasts. In this way, we preserve the precious phenolic compounds that shape the aroma and give a deep and complex structure to our wines. Subsequently, the wines are moved only once on their way into the bottle.
Thus, grapes from significant vineyard sites become special wines that express the unique style of our estate.
The fact that this estate is crafting some of the very best dry wines in Germany is no fluke, rather a result of nearly obsessive winemaker Stephan Attman’s commitment to both dedicated cultivation of Deidesheim and Forst’s best sites and meticulous work in the cellar. Von Winning maintains some of the oldest parcels in Grosses Gewächs vineyards smattered across Forst, Deidesheim, and Ruppertsberg. Attman’s every decision is informed by great enthusiasm and experiences at estates in the Cote d’Or and abroad. For example, Attman’s newer vines are planted at a very high vine density- 9500 vines per hectare, as opposed to the typically under 5000. This creates competition amongst the vines, forcing the roots to grow deep, naturally reducing yields. Attman has adopted the single cane trellising system, prevalent in Burgundy, and Grosses Gewächs wines ferment in 500mL French barrels. Von Winning practices organic and sustainable viticulture.
