Riesling Trocken Briedler Herzchen

Germany
Mosel
2021

2021 is the 3rd vintage of this wine, sourced from organically grown grapes in a vineyard site just the other side of the Marienberg from Clemens Busch's holdings.
A legally dry wine made from fruit picked on 40-year-old vines in this less well-known but almost full south-facing steep vineyard on a soil of iron-infused grey slate forming the prolongation of the Pündericher main hill. The Riesling was aged in steel tanks (the only single vineyard from the house's steel tank) and in oak barrels. It remains on the full yeast for 10 months. Shy at first, this wine has blossomed into an amazing and delicious wine!

94 points
"Elegant and juicy with a lot of stone fruit and honeysuckle aromas. Plenty of fruity Mosel charm on the front-palate, you don’t quite expect the compact core of fine tannin and minerality that gives this so much depth and tension. Turns sleek and stony at the long slatey finish. Herzchen means little heart in German. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. Screw Cap."
Stuart Pigott,
JamesSuckling.com
Nov 13, 2013

SKU/Code: 
DB4520-21
Product Line: 
Wine
White
Varietal: 
Riesling
Farming Type: 
Organic