Emil Bauer Sex Drugs & Rock'n Roll Riesling Pfalz QbA

All grapes come from the Bauer estate which compromises numerous vineyard sites around the town of Neustadt in Pfalz. The Riesling is grown sustainably, with as little intervention as is possible in this region, the vines are companion planted between rows and all efforts to use natural/organic fertilisers and disease prevention are taken. The wine was made very classically in stainless steel and a third was fermented in oak barrels. It is racked off the lees after fermentation to retain primary fruit flavours.

​This family business is into its fifth generation, after brothers Alexander and Martin took over from their father Norbert in 2011. The brothers set out on a radical, even controversial path to show German wines in a new and irreverent light. Their names and labels of course captured people’s attention – their wines have featured pit-side at the German Grand Prix – but behind the anecdotes and jokes are brilliantly made wines from the rolling hills of the Pfalz and their vineyards in and around Landau-Nussdorf.