2024 Ulli Stein Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett Feinherb Mosel, Germany Alessandro Viola - all 2019

- all 2019

It is fermented and aged “sur lies” for about two years in small horizontal tanks

and while the wine is lithe and without flab it possesses admirable sap and bastes the palate with dense

2019 Masseria del Pino 'I Nove Fratelli' Etna Rosso Sicily

undergoes vigorous vineyard sorting

2024 Ulli Stein Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett Feinherb Mosel, Germany Alessandro Viola - all 2019This wine is sort of the sleeper in the line up, without the fame of vine age as 1900 or the dry punch of Palmberg this wine is perhaps the purest Mosel of them all. The wine always ends in the Feinherb range, and is sourced from 80+ year old vines in terraced vineyards on blue and grey slate the wine always shows kaleidoscopic flavors of blues and greens, a tarragon and anise.