2017 Domaine Dirler-Cade Riesling Spiegel

The hot weather has been continuing---we are into day 8 of the second heat wave this year. One of the meals that we have in the evening is melon with prosciutto. My husband chose a perfectly ripe honeydew melon and prosciutto was the perfect match with a little bit of balsamic glaze. It's easy to make and is a very cool dinner. Doesn't this look good!

On the evening that we had this meal, we paired it with a 2017 Domaine Dirler-Cade Riesling Spiegel, a Grand Cru from the Alsace. We were tasting a few Alsatian wines that were a little heavy on the residual sugar and was a bit sweet for our palate, so it was nice to have a drier style Riesling, which this Domaine Dirler-Cade was. It was the perfect foil for the melon with the balsamic and fatty prosciutto.

On the back of the bottle, the label indicated that this wine was made from biodynamically grown grapes on Buntsandstein soil (please see my blog on The Geology of the Alsace if you are interested in what the Buntsandstein soil is). I like the fact that they hand harvest their grapes. I did taste the minerality of the Riesling!