Château Belá Riesling 2020 Pet Nat and extended maceration gives this

and extended maceration gives this wine a density and complexity that separates it clearly from the village bottling

or a simple charcuterie board with rillettes and cornichons

the kind of stony ground that gives red Burgundy tension and lift

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

Château Belá Riesling 2020 Pet Nat and extended maceration gives thisThe 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