I took this wine to a Xmas Eve family dinner to go with a loin of pork. As you can see from the symbol next to the vineyard name "Sankt Paul" is an Erste Lage site, and on the back it says it is a Grosses Gewaches wine, with the "climat" of Schweigener Sonnenberg. I suppose the Sankt Paul site is a portion of that, which is a monopole of Weingut Friedrich Becker, being named after a St Paul's monastery which was nearby . The vendor tells me that the vineyard is actually across the border in Alsace (or Elsass in German). Although I cannot find any info on this from their Website, there are other postings on the web which attests to that fact. Anyway it was an interesting drink, somewhat between a deep rose and a very light red. It was good with the pork.
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