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Helmut Clüsserath and daughter Verena (for much more about whose estate, consult the introduction to my coverage of their 2014s) began their 2015 harvest with selective passes in late September, notably for nobly sweet wines, with the bulk of picking taking place during the first three weeks of October. While some of their old vineyards (especially those in Mehring) delivered especially small berries and overall yields, the crop in deeper soils on the Mosel’s Right Bank were actually quite generous, yet, as my notes demonstrate, the corresponding generic and village-level bottlings didn’t suffer in the least – on the contrary. (They were perhaps especially well-suited to resist the summer heat and drought.) The Clüsserath-Weiler range of nobly sweet wines this year, explained Verena, was accomplished as a result of instances of botrytis that “never really became fungal,” with affected berries desiccating to the point of TBA within 10 days under the influence of wind. “They dried up so quickly,” she related, “that my father said he had never seen anything like it.” “It was important to put the entire crew to work for an intensive period of botrytis selection,” added Helmut Clüsserath, “because although some of them have been with us for a decade or more and are especially good at it, anyone is going to become fatigued if they are asked to specialize in that work for days on end.” The ennobled results of that late September scavenger hunt were of such magnitude and diversity that, as Verena Clüsserath reported from her vantage point running the cellar, “We had to utilize every small vessel at our disposal to accommodate all of the fermentations.”

From Mosel 2015: Rain in the Nick of Time (Jun 2017) by David Schildknecht

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