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As mentioned in the introduction to this Rheinhessen report, early June brought damaging hail to some of the same sectors of Westhofen that had been decimated in August 2017. But this time, the damage was not nearly as severe, and was visited on an outsized crop of embryonic grapes, so that eventual yields remained well above average, an especially fortunate thing for Florian Fauth, who in 2017 lost half of his grapes, including much of his best Riesling. Picking here began in the last days of August 2018 and lasted for five weeks. In order to preserve brightness and animation despite only moderate acidity, Fauth employed much less pre-fermentative skin contact than usual and in some instances direct-pressed the grapes. “Given the acid levels,” he noted, “I also elected for the most part to ferment the wines as fully as possible” – to ensure, that is, that they would tasted thoroughly dry. And all of those dry wines range from around 13% to 13.5% alcohol. (For background on Fauth and his family’s estate, consult especially the introduction to my account of his 2014s.)

From Rheinhessen 2018: Revelatory Rieslings (Nov 2020) by David Schildknecht

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