Rotling from a mix of red and white grapes

This is a bottle of Rotling wine from Juliusspital of Wurzburg in Franconia. Now with the exception of Champagne, pink wine cannot be made from mixing red and white wines. Normally pink wine is made from red grapes (which normally have white juice) in which skin contact is limited. The lightly coloured juice is then run off and fermented away from the skins. Rotling, a specialty of southern Germany on the other hand is made with a mix of red and white grapes fermented together to make a pink wine. This wine was tasted at this year's Wine Fair. Deep rose pink in colour, the nose was sweet and fruity but with distinctive note of swede (the vegetable). On the palate it was sweet and slightly fruity, with good acidity following through to the finish.