Forster Ungeheuer

Individual vineyard – 39.4 hectares
Altitude: 120-170 meters AMSL
Incline: 30 % steep, 30 % sloping, 40 % flat
Soil quality: sandy clay mixed with lime, sandy loam interspersed with limestone shingle. 

This vineyard is one of the top locations in the Palatinate. The complex soil, which is mixed with basalt and lime, produces full-bodied, elegant Riesling wines of a special kind. It was not just Otto von Bismarck who was obsessed with this wine exclaiming: ‘Dieses Ungeheuer schmeckt mir ungeheuer’, which roughly translates into ’ This monster (Ungeheuer) tastes monstrously good’.