2022 Weingut Daniel Vollenweider, Golgrube Riesling Trocken, Mosel, Germany Georges Laval Very drinkable

Very drinkable

In vintages that he doesn’t deem great enough to produce the “first wine”

The wine is light

Spice party in the middle of a Norwegian Fir Forest

Maceration and proportions of whole-cluster vs destemming vary each vintage depending on the sanitary state of the grapes

2022 Weingut Daniel Vollenweider, Golgrube Riesling Trocken, Mosel, Germany Georges Laval Very drinkableThe 2022er Goldgrube Riesling, as it is referred to on the consumer label, is a bone dry wine made from fruit harvested on up to 120 year old un grafted vines and was left for 1 year on its gross lees. It has a beautifully and finely reductive and very herbal nose of minty thyme, rosemary, white pepper, spearmint, flintstone, and other wild herbs, before showing fine scents of white flowers and lime tree. The wine starts off on a slightly round and