Hofgut Falkenstein, Krettnacher Euchariusberg Kabinett Alte Reben AP #8, 2016 so062423 magnums for july 4th vinified fresh and pale

vinified fresh and pale

The name tells you the posture: this is vermouth with the stuffing knocked out of it

Bartolo Mascarello's Barolo from 2012

Case Basse is farmed more like a nature reserve than a vineyard

Hofgut Falkenstein, Krettnacher Euchariusberg Kabinett Alte Reben AP #8, 2016 so062423 magnums for july 4th vinified fresh and paleThe Webers made exactly one cask of this wine in 2016 a single thousand liter Fuder, and no more. Alte Reben is not a flourish on the label here: the fruit comes off their block of roughly eighty year old ungrafted Riesling in the Gross Schock, the south turning sector of the otherwise west facing Krettnacher Euchariusberg, where deeper soil lets the roots go down and a constant cold draft keeps the acidity intact. It was block harvested at 87 degrees