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Marto Gau Weinheim Riesling 2023

Name: Marto Gau Weinheim Riesling 2023
Brand: Marto
SKU: MARTO-GAUOLDVINES
Price: 39.00 USD
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Style: Dry, medium-bodied white wine with genuine depth from extended barrel aging; less primary fruit-forward than most German Riesling, with a more textural, layered profile driven by the two years on lees in old wood
Grapes & terroir: 100% Riesling; single parcel of 60-year-old vines near Gau-Weinheim village, Rheinhessen; limestone soils at 330 metres; organically farmed; dry 2023 growing season allowed a slightly later harvest and ripe fruit with good natural acidity
Winemaking: Direct press; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in old barrels; two years on lees in old wood; no topping; bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur at any point
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52–56°F; allow 15 to 20 minutes in the glass after opening; no decanting required but a larger-format glass will help the aromatics open fully
Pairing: Quiche Lorraine
Similar to: Drinkers familiar with Alsatian Riesling aged in old foudres or with lees-aged Burgundian whites will find a useful point of reference

Marto Gau-Weinheim Riesling 2023 is a dry white wine produced by Martin Wörner under his Marto label in Rheinhessen, Germany. The wine comes from a single parcel of 60-year-old Riesling vines growing on limestone soils at 330 metres above sea level near the village of Gau-Weinheim. Grapes are farmed organically, hand-harvested, and direct-pressed before fermenting with indigenous yeasts in old barrels. Marto Gau-Weinheim Riesling 2023 then spends two full years on its lees in barrel, during which primary fruit recedes and secondary complexity develops. The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfur.

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Producer profile

Marto

Marto is the label of Martin Wörner, a winemaker from Flonheim, a small village in the western Rheinhessen near the Nahe border. The Wörner family has been connected to viticulture in Flonheim for generations. Martin's grandfather was among the first growers in the village to bottle wine under his own name rather than delivering grapes to the local cooperative. When Martin's father took over, the family redirected its focus to farming, running a strawberry operation while maintaining the vineyards but selling the fruit. That changed when Martin began taking over the vines in 2015 and 2016, with the intention of making wine again.

Before his first harvest, Martin sought practical training with two producers who shaped his understanding of what low-intervention winemaking could be. In 2015 he worked at Gut Oggau in Burgenland, Austria, with Eduard and Stephanie Tscheppe. In 2016 he moved to the Roussillon to work with Tom Lubbe at Matassa, where he developed a deeper understanding of aromatic varieties and vineyard-first winemaking. His first vintage under the Marto name was 2017, starting with around 2,500 bottles. The range and the vineyard area have grown steadily since.

Today, Marto farms approximately 13 hectares across a range of sites, with varieties including Riesling, Pinot Noir, Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau, Scheurebe, and others. Farming follows organic principles and incorporates biodynamic practices, with cover crops of radishes, turnips, and beetroot, sheep grazing between rows, and no tillage. All wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts, aged in old wood, and bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulfur. His partner Alanna Lagamba, who produces wines under her own Vin de la Gamba label, is also involved in the estate.

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Wine region

Rheinhessen, Germany

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest wine-producing region by vineyard area, covering roughly 26,500 hectares in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is bordered by the Rhine to the north and east, and by the Nahe region to the west. The terrain is gently rolling, with a wide range of soil types across its 136 villages, including sandstone, loess, limestone, clay, and marl. This geological diversity gives Rheinhessen a broad stylistic range that no single grape variety or wine type can fully represent.

The village of Gau-Weinheim sits in the foothills of the Wißberg, in the central-western part of the region. Its first documentary record dates to 767 AD, and viticulture has been the village's principal activity for centuries. The Gau-Weinheimer Geyersberg, the principal named vineyard site in the area, is known for its calcareous clay soils and loess deposits, with limestone providing the structural mineral backbone that Riesling from this area tends to express. At around 330 metres elevation, the parcel farmed by Marto is among the higher-altitude plantings in the region, which contributes to slower ripening and naturally preserved acidity even in warm vintages like 2023.

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, Rheinhessen's identity was dominated by bulk production and residually sweet wines for export, most famously Liebfrauenmilch. That association has largely been replaced by a new generation of growers working with minimal intervention, organic farming, and a clear focus on site expression. The western sandstone zone around Flonheim and the limestone-influenced soils further east toward Gau-Weinheim have both become important reference points for this newer direction in Rheinhessen winemaking.

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