FFW 2021 Wine Catalogue

MEET THE GROWER Bercher, Baden

JECHTINGEREICHERT SPÄTBURGUNDERERSTE LAGE BERCHER 2016 DRINK2019 - 2028

GERMANY AHR&BADEN

The Bercher family have beenmaking wine in Burkheim for 300 years or more. The estate is now in the hands of the 10th generation of the family. Situated between the Rhine River and the Black Forest, the estate is the second largest privately owned estate in southern Germany. It is little surprise that in that time the family have gathered 42 hectares of some of the finest vineyards covering the volcanic slopes of the Kaiserstuhl hills. The focus is on traditionally French varieties, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris, all made with fantastic complexity that is very much suited to food pairing as well as cellar ageing.

6x75 £147

On the nose polished red fruit: sour cherry, currant, some white pepper and blackthorn. Fine tannin on the palate, clean clear cherry fruit, attractive acidity, mediumbody. Fine Spätburgunder, which prepares a lot of drinking fun.

—FALSTAFF

FALSTAFF 90

Those people – and there are quite a few – who purport not to like sweet wines or who at first glance find German labels incomprehensible are missing out on one of the joys of wine.

—MICHAEL BROADBENT’SVINTAGEWINE BOOK

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