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Bernd Philippi - Kallstadter Saumagen GbR

In previous reports, I have discussed and reviewed – indeed, swooned over – the first three vintages (2013-2015) of a garage-sized project of former Koehler-Ruprecht cellarmaster-proprietor Bernd Philippi, wines vinified and watched over at the Knipsers’ facilities (where I taste them), with Werner Knipser’s son Stephan taking the lead. It seems that additional parcels have now been acquired, so that beginning with vintage 2016, significantly more wine will be available. “He’s on a buying spree [im Kaufrausch] in the Saumagen,” chuckled Werner Knipser as he showed me Philippi’s 2016, but then he explained that what started out as a quarter of a hectare (barely more than half an acre) has increased around four-fold. The first two vintages have now been released (albeit very selectively). They feature a presentation label reading merely “Kallstadter Saumagen” – which turns out to be the official name of this project as well as its wines – along with a rather wickedly disrespectful graphic alluding to the VDP’s emblematic eagle. The back label – and knowing Philippi as I do, I should have guessed this when I was tasting from unlabeled bottles – reveals that the Prädikat “Spätlese” is being employed to fully describe these wines, so I need to see that the headings of my previous tasting notes in the Vinous database are retroactively adjusted to insert that word. (To avoid confusion, I’m going to retain Philippi’s name as part of the producer name and add “GBR,” although that is simply the abbreviation for a German legal term describing the terms under which Philippi and the Knipsers have associated.) Good luck scoring some wine for your cellar – and send me a note if you succeed!

From German Riesling 2017: No Pfalz Sense of Security (Mar 2019) by David Schildknecht

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