Von Winning Riesling: Sechs Dragon Riesling Case

Riesling Drache. This Riesling is shipped exclusively for The Allotment. Only available here and in very limited quantities. Bright and fresh; juicy and easy, this is delightful wine that is made from grapes grown in the villages of Forst and Deidesheim, where the wonderful Von Winning are based, which are home to some of the most famed vineyards in Germany yielding some of the most historically prized Rieslings in the world.

One of Germany’s longest-running wineries, Weingut von Winning was founded in 1849 and given a new lease of life by Achim Niederberger in 2007.

Bringing on board winemaker Stephan Attman and, in time, Andreas Hütwohl, the project was one of clear and brilliant simplicity: the wines from Pfalz were some of the most famous and expensive wines available in the 1850s.

The "New" Von Winning resurrected old winemaking techniques using the best grapes and single vineyards available, which, as it turned out, was fairly easy because the best grapes were quite literally on their doorstep. These wines then are fermented in large wooden barrels that are 1,200 litres in capacity and oval in shape, they are a traditional German barrel called Stücke, literally 'pieces'.

These have no oak flavour impact, but allow for the Riesling to be really expressive and lose the twangy metallic texture that can come from some stainless steel only fermented wines.

As we've got to know them, the wines that they make from a dizzying number of different vineyard names have offered myriad views of Riesling through the same multi-faceted crystal.

Try these amazing wines and explore the quality of the Pfalz for yourself. Each of the Rieslings will give you a different perspective of Riesling through the same multi-faceted crystal.