2017 Weingut Thörle Rheinhessen Spätburgunder

German red wine with the scent of cherries, red berries and a mild oak tone. The taste is ripe and soft. A nice wine with poultry, rabbit stew or a mild cheese.

The brothers Christoph and Johannes Thörle manage a family business in Saulheim in Rheinhessen, Germany's largest wine region. They are ambitious and like to do things their own way. Like many typical German wine companies, they don't grow a wide range of different grape varieties. They limit themselves to a handful of classic varieties, such as riesling and silvaner for white, and spätburgunder (pinot noir) for red. The Gault & Millau wine guide (2015) sees it well: "Thörle is becoming more sophisticated, as it were Burgundian. The basic wines are wonderfully juicy, the middle class impressive. A new high-level highlight!"