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Vollenweider

Vollenweider captured an exceedingly ripe array of flavors from 2016, a phenomenon doubtless accentuated by the small size of a crop trimmed by peronospora and in some instances black rot. And that reduction, on top of an absence of noble botrytis and an interest in having enough dry wine to satisfy markets favoring that genre, has resulted in a smaller collection than usual of sweet wines, featuring in two instances less brightness or focus than are typical Vollenweider at his best. Alongside the residually sweet 2016s, I as always tasted dry wines from the previous vintage that weren’t bottled until more than a year after harvest; similarly, I’ll canvass Vollenweider’s dry 2016s alongside his residually sweet 2017s. (For more on this grower, consult the introduction to my report on his 2014s.)

From Mosel Riesling 2016 Part 1: From Extremes, Equilibrium (Jan 2018) by David Schildknecht

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2016 Riesling Felsenfest

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