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Ansgar Clüsserath

Eva Clüsserath didn’t begin picking until October 16, 2016, 11 days earlier than the year before, and picked into early November. “But there was no hurry,” she reported, echoing the accounts of so many of her colleagues, “and you could really take time to plan things out.” That said, at 90 Oechsle, this year’s Apotheke trocken registered the highest must weight of any wine. Clüsserath’s yields were not far below average, though some vineyards that she draws on for her basic “Vom Schiefer” bottling were fairly badly hit by peronospora (one reason there is no feinherb version this year), and she suffered losses to sunburn at some of her top sites. Fermentations here often run well into the New Year, and in the case of 2016 they were especially prolonged due to a slow startup under frigid weather that significantly influenced cellar temperatures. (For a bit of background on Eva Clüsserath and her estate, consult the introduction to my account of her 2014s.)

From Mosel Riesling 2016 Part 2: Longuich to Graach (Jan 2018) by David Schildknecht

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2016 Riesling Vom Schiefer trocken

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