2024 Peter Lauer, Riesling Schonfels GG Fass 11, Mosel Cuvee_Les Hautes GarriguesThe Saar is Riesling at its most uncompromising steeper, colder, and more demanding than the Mosel proper, producing wines with a nerve and minerality that take your breath away when everything comes together. The Schonfels is one of its most singular sites, and Florian Lauer is the right custodian for it. The vineyard is a near vertical cliff face in Ayl 90% gradients of weathered grey blue slate, un terraced and essentially unfarmed by machine. The
eschewing synthetic fertilizers in favor of meticulous manual stewardship that treats each vine like a historic monument
and he consults with a few up-and-coming wineries
and it is only beginning to show what it can do
extended extraction in wooden vessels
drinking beautifully now but built to age
Trollinger
possesses a dense mid-palate extract and a high-nerve acidity that anchors a persistent
followed by an arid
and Chardonnay
block-by-block harvesting over an extended period to capture optimal physiological ripeness across the vineyard’s fragmented slope
Le Haut-Lieu is a pure
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