Winery BefortNitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Nitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut
Pairings that work perfectly with Nitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut
Original food and wine pairings with Nitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut
The Nitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut of Winery Befort matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of sea bass wrapped in salt crust, rice with seafood or quiche with comté cheese and cured ham.
Details and technical informations about Winery Befort's Nitteler Leiterchen Elbling Brut.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris
Rich, ample whites with a golden robe, showing aromas of pear, quince, honey, smoke, ginger and spice. Made as structured dry wines (Alsace AOC), off-dry and sumptuous late-harvest sweet (vendange tardive, sélection de grains nobles). Lighter and crisper in Italy as Pinot Grigio (Veneto, Friuli). Also in Germany (Grauburgunder), Hungary (Szürkebarát) and Oregon. A grey mutation of Pinot Noir.
Informations about the Winery Befort
The Winery Befort is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in the of Mosel to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Mosel
Kingdom of lively, crystalline Riesling: citrus, green apple, gunflint, tangy tension and signature slate minerality. From light, fruity Kabinett to off-dry Spätlese, up to sweet Auslese and Trockenbeerenauslese of rare finesse. Some supple Müller-Thurgau and lively Elbling. Steeply sloped vineyards (up to 65% at the Bremmer Calmont) on blue and grey slate, 5,400 ha of Riesling (61.
The word of the wine: Overmaturation
When the grapes reach maturity, the skin becomes permeable and progressively loses water, which causes a concentration phenomenon inside the berry. This is called over-ripening or passerillage.
