Pieroth Langenlonsheimer Sonnenborn Spatlese Vintage 1976

Pieroth Langenlonsheimer Sonnenborn Spatlese Vintage 1976Pieroth is a large and renowned German wine producer. This Spatlese, a sweet wine, was bottled to commemorate the Late Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977 and is labeled for this. The wine was bottled on 7th June 1977. The 1976 vintage is legendary for sweet wines like this. Typical Blend, Muller Thurgau, Silvaner. 70cl bottle. Abv% not stated. Bottle condition, capsule showing a little age, label good, wine level 3cm below base of cork.

Set up by winemaker Nicolas Potel with the aim of making wines from specific plots of old vines

They were ripe

From crisp whites to robust reds and everything in between

perhaps a little dilute at this stage but not short or tart or drying out

Now the estate has 65 hecters of its own vines producing great wines

A lithograph on wove paper of the 1985 vintage Chateau Mouton Rothschild label by Paul Delavaux

Rankend as a third growth in the 1855 classification and the highest ranked estate labeled as an Haut Medoc

40% Grenache 10% Mourvèdre

75cl Bottle Abv 13%

This is the second wine of the famous La Chapelle

wine level a little below the cork

150cl Magnum Bottle