Principiano, Ferdinando 2018 Barolo Serralunga It’s a throwback wine to former times, but it’s also a fresh and intriguing slightly off dry riesling with 20gms RS, explosive with tropical notes like pineapple with herbaceousness over a slightly spritzy, juicy limeade finish. Kilian explains that “every year, one tank takes forever, and what can we do? We wait and wait and if it doesn’t get dry, it must be where the wine wants to be.” It’s richly textured, leesy, but also crunchy with spice. The label showcases an old photo of the Calmont vineyard, from which all the grapes in this wine harken, but it also is a reminder of a time when this kind of élevage was normal. “Zeit” means “time” and this wine fermented, spontaneously, for 396 days before it could not go further. They display remarkable freshness and animation as well as power and echoing length. All this accounts for wines that are as much about texture, herbaceousness, and salinity as they are fruit. The wines go through malo and GGs are bottled late. Fermentations are spontaneous, some taking nearly two years to complete. Extremely ebullient with a luscious mouthfeel, made for festivities! Giselle Hamburgįranzen, Reinhold 2018 Mosel Bremmer Riesling 'Zeit'Ī sheer delight from one of the world's steepest vertical vineyards with 90 year old vines their roots driven into the terraced slate, giving immense concentration to the wines. But due to the influence of the forested mountains, Senftenberg experiences cooler nights than the Wachau and therefore larger diurnal swings in temperature, drawing out the ripening season and contributing spiciness and depth to the wines.The nose is intense displaying notes of pine forest, white flowers, graphite and guava whilst the palate is super bright with notes of peachade, lime zest and herbaceousness. These terroirs of primary rock, or ‘gneiss,’ planted to Riesling and Grüner Veltliner, have much more in common with the Wachau than with the rest of the Kremstal. Weingut Nigl, tucked deep in the northern Krems Valley on the edge of the Senftenberg mountain, often evokes feelings that one has traveled back to medieval times the ruins of the Senftenberg castle, erected in 1197, are perched above the terraced vineyards Höchacker, Pellingen, Piri, and Kirchenberg.
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