Becker Family Pinot Blanc, 2019

 We have a German Pinot Blanc, a grape often overshadowed by the area’s rieslings. This bottle is refreshing and offers great minerality alongside pear & apple notes. Not overly sweet, though! We recommend trying with fish or charcuterie. 

To tell the story of Weingut Friedrich Becker in Pfalz, one must become familiar with Aesop’s fable, “The Fox and the Grapes,” which involves a fox trying to eat grapes from a vine far from within his grasp. However, rather than admitting defeat, the fox states that the grapes are sour, so he never really wanted them. This very fox adorns Becker labels and has done so since the estate released its first commercially made wines back in 1973. Positioned on the very border with France in the town of Schweigen, the Beckers have witnessed that border shifting throughout history. Today, they have vineyards on both the French and German side, at the edge of the Palatinate forest—with 70 percent of their land situated on the French side in Alsace.The old vines with mostly German clones and some French grow on deep marl lime soils that produce powerful but also refined, mineral-driven pinot varietals.