Château Belá Riesling 2020 Pet Nat and potatoes

and potatoes

textured dish where the sweet acidity of orange and the mild anise of fennel play off the wine’s citrus and mineral backbone

yields set by winter pruning and debudding

and it produces some of Trentino's most serious Teroldego

or a simple charcuterie board with rillettes and cornichons

Château Belá Riesling 2020 Pet Nat and potatoesThe Land Slovakia is not a country most people associate with serious Riesling, and that is largely an accident of the twentieth century rather than a verdict on the ground. Bel sits in the trovo region in the far south of the country, on the north bank of the Danube where it forms the border with Hungary, and the Romans were growing vines on these hills long before anybody drew those lines. Soils are deep loess, wind blown silt that holds water and