The white that got away

On Boxing Day we got around to trying out the wine noticed at reference 1, that is to say bought from Secret Cellar of Tunbridge Wells, lost in a hotel and subsequently retrieved.

I had bought it on the strength of it being in what I thought was the white wine part of the shop, it being in what I thought was the sort of tall thin bottle used for white wine, it having an impressive label and it being at about the right price. In the event it turned out to be red wine, entirely appropriate to the roast lamb with which it was served and entirely satisfactory. That is, after the first half mouthful which was a little odd - but then, with me, the first half mouthful usually is.

Subsequent investigations turned up reference 2, in German, and reference 3 in English. Made from Pinot Noir, called Spätburgunder, which looks to mean late Burgundy and with the full ticket being '2013 Weingut Hanewald-Schwerdt Kalkofen Spätburgunder, Pfalz, Germany'. Perhaps the German version of Burgundy, a bit late being a bit further north. Somewhere I turned up talk of an important limestone reef, unique to the region, now lost.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/12/snow-queen.html.

Reference 2: https://www.hanewald-schwerdt.de/#!/.

Reference 3: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/hanewald+schwert+kalkofen+spatburgunder+pfalz+germany/2013/-/-/u#t2.