Merchant Reviews The Ratzenberger family moved to the Mittelrhein from East Germany in the fifties, and young Jochen Ratzenberger first began to make wine in 1994. His 8-hectare estate, west and north of the town of Bacharach, comprises three steep vineyards of blue-black Devon slate: Steeger St. Jost, Posten, and Wolfshöhle. This hand-disgorged Jahrgangs und Lagensekt is made from grapes grown on the Bacharacher Kloster Furstental, a steep hillside vineyard located south of the town. The Furstental delivers steely, firm, age-worthy sparkling wine with some surprising floral delicacy, complex minerality, and a refined, lingering finish. Supremely good with crab salad, walnut oil dressings and smoked fish. -- Greg Moore, Moore Brothers Wine Company, March 14, 2009

Price: $32.00 (or $30.40 if you buy 12 or more) SKU# R4547

Winery: Ratzenberger
Style: Sparkling
Varietal: Riesling
Region: Other Germany

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