2021 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'Der Hirt' Landwein Trocken Mosel, Germany Speyside alluvial topsoil over clay-limestone bedrock

alluvial topsoil over clay-limestone bedrock

Aged for eight months

100% was transferred as whole-cluster to open fermenters

Marlborough

A Blanc de Noirs of Pinot Noir

2021 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'Der Hirt' Landwein Trocken Mosel, Germany Speyside alluvial topsoil over clay-limestone bedrockder Hirt is sourced from a south facing, red slate sandstone vineyard called Valwiger Herrenberg. As he is bottling everything as "Landwein", he is unable to indicate the vineyard site with such a wine, so Philip has created a persona, der Hirt or shepherd. This is, after all, the Herrenberg, or, hill of the shepherd. There are two parcels here that Philip worked (0. 21 hectares combined), both terraced, einzelstck vineyards with ungrafted vines