RHENISH HESSE

Peth-Wetz Vineyard Christian Peth’s vineyard, which he runs with his wife Maja Luise, is located between Worms and . As the owner and cellar master, Christian cultivates 30 hectares of vines around Bermersheim, Dalsheim and . The vines grow on loess and limestone soils. The Gault Millau Wine Guide already rates it as one of the leading red wine vineyards in Rhenish Hesse.

The wine has a distinctive taste. Christian likes full-bodied, concentrated, characterful wines rich in tannins of the type he became acquainted with during his time in Chile, Australia and the US, during his training to become a winemaker and while taking his viticulture degree in Geisenheim.

His wines

2018 Sauvignon blanc 0.2L/0.75L €9.00/€30.00 2017 Assemblage unfiltered 0.2L/0.75L €11.00/€35.00

2016 Assemblage réserve – served with Coravin 0.1L/0.75L €13.50/€90.00

Typical regional dishes:

Spundekääs (cream cheese/quark dip) €11.00 with radish salad, rösti-style potatoes and pretzel roll

Stone bass fried on its skin €24.00 with a Riesling froth, sautéed Swiss chard, almonds juniper ham and mashed potatoes

Dibbelabbes (a potato hash) €18.00 with creamy peas and chanterelle mushrooms, radishes and a salad of herbs

Winegrowing area One fifth of the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Rhenish Hesse, which is also the area with the least forest in the whole of , is planted with vines. Over 6,000 winemakers produce more than 2.5m hectolitres of wine from approx. 120m vines each year. Of the 136 boroughs in Rhenish Hesse, it’s only Budenheim, , Eich, Hamm and Nieder-Wiesen that don’t cultivate any wine in their own district. Rhenish Hesse is also one of the places most steeped in winegrowing tradition because wine has been cultivated there since 20BC. Dating back to 742, Nierstein’s Niersteiner Glöck is the oldest officially documented winegrowing area in Germany. After the construction of the wine cellar in Bremen in 1405, initially only wines from Rhenish Hesse were served there – the standard and the more superior variety.