There are times when wine needs to be demure, supportive, and unobtrusive, ready to play second fiddle to the meal or the company. However there are also times when I want a wine to bust the door down and kick me in the teeth, something unexpected, loud, and funky. Today I am reaching for the latter, and Vater&Sohn #6 from 2naturkinder is just the wine. Winemakers Michael Völker and Melanie Drese took ownership of Michael’s Bavarian family vineyard in 2013, and began producing natural, minimal intervention wines, “driven by the idea of producing the purest wine possible. A wine full of life, not expectations.” And this wine is certainly full of life. A blend of Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Riesling, and Grauburgunder. It vibrates on the tongue: pineapple, green papaya, ripe yellow apples, and then it surrenders to more savory, wilder notes of wet wool, parmesan, and tamarind. Have it with a schnitzel, and some of your funkier friends, this wine will definitely be able to hold its own.
-Talia
