A 12.5 ha Kallstadt traditionalist working Saumagen, Steinacker and Annaberg with spontaneous fermentation in old oak; the Saumagen R Riesling has been bottled in this house style since the Bernd Philippi era from the 1970s.
Tasting: Estate tastings by appointment in the Kallstadt Weinstrasse cellar; traditional spontaneous fermentation in old oak with extended lees contact, Saumagen R bottlings released years after vintage.
A 44 ha north-Mittelhaardt estate at Freinsheim under brothers Steffen and Andreas Rings, VDP member since 2015; spontaneous-ferment dry Riesling and Pinot Noir from Saumagen, Annaberg, Weilberg and Felsenberg in a new underground cellar.
Tasting: Estate Vinothek at the new (2018) cellar at Am Gottesacker 10, set 70 percent underground in the Schwarzes Kreuz vineyard; tastings by appointment of Kallstadter Saumagen, Annaberg and Ungsteiner Weilberg GGs.
Bernd Philippi at Kallstadt works the Kallstadter Saumagen limestone bowl with a hands-off, oxidative, low-intervention approach: spontaneous ferments, old large oak ageing and almost no fining, producing a cult traditionalist Pfalz dry Riesling.
Tip: The Saumagen R Riesling and the rare 100 percent Spaetburgunder Saumagen are the two cult bottles; both read the no-intervention Pfalz style at a unique extreme.