Check out VinePair‘s recent deep dive on the Rheinhessen. It spotlights BW&Co’s Schätzel and also flags Bastian Beny as a producer to watch.

“Rheinhessen wasn’t always a “backwater,” in the words of one importer. It was warmer in Europe 500 years ago, grapes ripened more reliably, and the region’s wines graced the tables of bishops. Even when the climate turned cold, one part of the Rheinhessen stayed ripe enough for distinction: the Roter Hang, the Mosel-steep “Red Slope” of red slate in Rheinhessen’s east, directly on the Rhine, which magnified the heat and mitigated the cold.”

“‘Our climate in Rheinhessen today is a bit like Burgundy in the mid-80s,’ Keller says.”

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