"A beautiful berry basket lined with flowers and green accents. Touch of plum cake and redcurrant, taut and crisp, earthy spice. This is all pure, linear, clarion fruit with very little balsamic or autumnal influence. Volcanic minerality and ripe redcurrants. While missing the complexity of leaves and forest floor, it completely over delivers for a Gutswein. Chalky finesse on the long, lingering finish." - Jancis Robinson
"Weingut Salwey in Oberrotweil, in the heart of the Kaiserstuhl region, is proud of its history as a classic family-run estate. Yet that tradition only tells part of the story. Konrad is the third generation of Salwey to run the winery, which focuses on Pinot varieties traditional to the Kaiserstuhl region.
The family winery is situated in Germany’s most sun-drenched region, known as the Kaiserstuhl atop an extinguished volcano not far from Switzerland and across the Rhein from Alsace. The rugged, stony soil on this former volcanic cone is composed of black tephrite bedrock, with clinkstone (phonolite) filling the deeper fissures. Where those fissures extend to the surface, black granite (malanite) can also be found in the soil. The stony earth presents a number of challenges to vine and vigneron. The wines are strongly shaped by the loess and weathered volcanic soils of the vineyards, and are always fully fermented dry. In the cellar, nature is provided with plenty of time and space to do her work. All in keeping to the motto: As little as possible, as much as needed.
Wine enthusiasts are taking notice. Germany’s leading Restaurant and Wine Guide, Falstaff, elected Konrad Salwey as “Vintner of the Year” in 2017. His wines can now be found in many of the leading restaurants of Germany and neighbouring countries." - Salwey
