2017 Materne & Schmitt, Riesling Winninger Qualitatswein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Rampolla cool yellow fruits

cool yellow fruits

exposition (ridge-top) and soil composition (deep volcanic loam) come together here in a nearly perfect combination

Casa de Santa Eufemia 2009 LBV Port

” a cheat sheet to good (and great) vintages (and why you shouldn't put everything on the line for them)

Christine Muhlke

2017 Materne & Schmitt, Riesling Winninger Qualitatswein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Rampolla cool yellow fruitsWinningen is their home base on the Mosel; this is where the winery is. All vineyards are steep sloped or terraced. The particular slate profile of Winningen is a grey brown that also contains iron and other mineralic particles that slowly oxidise red and yellow. All vineyards are facing south or south west. Four to eight hour maceration on skins, natural settling by gravity, spontaneous fermentation, no chaptalization, no fining, no additions or