Scheuermann, "Vin de Soda" NV

As the importer’s profile on Weingut Scheuermann begins, “We don’t make German wine. We make Pfalz wine. In a Loire style,” you get the sense of rootedness and aspiration. A kind of figurative picture of a grapevine – rooted in the Pfalz’s soil, reaching in heart, toward the Loire’s sky. What Gabriel Scheuermann in this quote may have meant was there is an honest testament to place intrinsic to their wines (their place being the Pfalz region of eastern-central Germany) while there is at the same time an undoubted love for the wines typical of the Loire valley, that is, fresh, acid driven, and mixing minerality with cores of tight fruit. If this were the case, then he was spot on. The wines Gabriel and his brother Simon produce are unbelievably fresh akin to the Loire & yet undeniably from a colder environment than that famous valley – this cuvée in particular has a body-artistry about it, convincing you it is not sparkling wine but mineral water run through a lemon sieve. And the a