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Andreas Schumann only began picking toward the end of September 2018, and I was naturally inclined to attribute that relatively late onset to this estate’s unusually cool – high-elevation and forest-bounded – location. But he was quick to counter my supposition. While the climate is changing, he explained, the sun and light cycle remains unaltered. Schumann is convinced that the response to that cycle is what insures his long biodynamically handled vines have lately experienced a relatively constant progression of bud-break in April, flowering in July, and picking in late September or October. “Of course,” he added by way of longer-term perspective and with reference to the viticultural regimen of an earlier era, “at one time harvest might not have taken place here until November.” On the occasion of my most recent tasting visit in mid-November 2019, the recently harvested Rieslings from Odinstal’s top parcels, which form the basis for the estate’s trio of geologically designated bottlings, had already overtaken their vintage 2018 predecessors in terms of fermentative progress. Most relevant lots of 2019s had already gone dry or nearly so, while those from 2018 remained sweet and unfinished – hence the abbreviated extent of my tasting notes below. (For extensive background on this estate, consult the introductions that accompany my coverage and tasting notes focused on its 2016s and 2017s. Within those tasting notes can be found explanations of the names, vineyard origins and approaches taken with each of the Odinstal bottlings, details which I have mentioned only sparingly in these notes on the 2018s.)

From The Pfalz – Not False – Promise of 2018 (Mar 2021) by David Schildknecht

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