Deep garnet
Still Red · VDP.Grosse Lage Pfalz · Pfalz
Becker's dry Grosses Gewachs Spatburgunder from the Schweigener Sonnenberg-Kammerberg: red cherry, smoke, herbs and fine slate-driven tannin.
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Allow 95 minutes from open to pour.
Sonnenberg-Kammerberg is a Becker single-vineyard bottling parallel to Sankt Paul, on the Schweigen side of the French border in Pinot Noir-dominant parcels.
Structurally full-bodied, firm tannins, high acidity with a long finish. Becker's dry Grosses Gewachs Spatburgunder from the Schweigener Sonnenberg-Kammerberg: red cherry, smoke, herbs and fine slate-driven tannin.
Drink 7 to 25 from vintage. Young vintages benefit from 30-90 minutes of decanting; mature bottles should be handled carefully for sediment.
Pheasant with wild mushroom is the canonical pairing; Roast lamb with rosemary is the other strong match. Cherry and smoke flatter gamey poultry; tannin frames the mushroom.
No: the producer uses traditional animal-derived fining agents (typically egg whites or isinglass) during clarification, so the wine is not vegan.
The blend is Spatburgunder (Pinot Noir). The wine is classified as VDP.Grosse Lage Pfalz.
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