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2021 Steffenberg im Löwenbaum feinherb [07 22]
£21.76 per Bottle
£130.54 per Case
£16.00 per Bottle
£96.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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Like their friend Daniel Vollenweider, Konstantin Weiser and Alexandra Künstler are newcomers to the region, attracted by a love of Riesling. Starting from nothing in 2005, they began building a portfolio of formerly famous sites around Traben-Trarbach that were on the point of being abandoned: steep, inaccessible and uneconomic, as everything had to be done by hand. But the soils were superb, the vines old and ungrafted, and they began to produce a dazzling range of organic wines which have given them cult status. Their production, from 3.8 hectares, is tiny. They are not interested in a fruity style, favouring oxidative winemaking that brings out minerality, and the wines benefit from decanting well ahead when young.
2021 Vintage
It all looked great until flowering: then the cold rainy weather brought an onslaught of mildew on the freshly-emerged stamens just when the vines were at their most vulnerable.
Organic growers, unable to use systemic fungicides, were hardest hit. Half the crop was lost. On the plus side, this meant that no green harvesting was necessary, since nature had already done enough for the remaining grapes to ripen in time for harvest. This ran through October, and has produced a set of brilliant, pointed wines with huge energy and precision, some of the most exciting in our portfolio.
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£21.76 per Bottle
£130.54 per Case
£16.00 per Bottle
£96.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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