01/03/2025
🚨🚨Putting this on special by the glass this weekend until it sold out.
2018 Robert Weil Kiedrich Klosterberg Riesling Trocken, Rheingau, Germany
Robert Weil has been one of the icons of German wine culture for many years. Nothing but the finest Rieslings are produced. And as more than 100 years ago, the wines are distinguished in terms of their origins and their style.
Macerated for 12 to 24 hours and vinified entirely in large oak until the bottling in early May, the 2018 Kiedrich Klosterberg Trocken offers a clear, bright, deep and intense, still fresh and even coolish, herbal, elegant nose. Round and juicy on the generous and elegant palate, with lush and silky fruit, a firm structure and sustainable salinity, this is a tensioned, mineral dry Riesling with remarkable roundness, balance and finesse. Impressive, tight and salty.
2020 Domaine des Ardoisieres Argile Rouge, Savoie, France
Argile Rouge is the expression of three grape varieties: 50-year-old Mondeuse from clay soil in Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte, and Gamay and Persan that comes from 40-year-old vines on west-facing, schist-y marl hillsides in Saint-Pierre-de-Soucy.
Used native yeast fermentation, gentle whole-cluster pressing, a light touch of sulfur additions (only 1 gram at bottling), and a light filtration to create wines that convey the purity and elegance of the Savoie region. As a result, these wines speak ‘terroir’ arguably better than anywhere else in the world.
The bouquet has an exotic complexity, leaping out of the glass with violets, spicy red fruits, pomegranates and rich iron minerals. The palate is structured with intense, spiced Christmas cake and a red-to-black fruit profile following a dried baker‘s spice mix.
