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Weiser-Künstler

Unluckily, Konstantin Weiser and Alexandra Künstler chose 2016 as their year to completely convert to organic practices. Most of their sites are so steep that sprays can only be applied by hand with a tank strapped to your back, and it was humanly impossible for a team of two to keep up with peronospora during the wet spring and early summer of 2016. Half of a normal crop was sacrificed, with the greatest losses in Ellergrub. “In many cases, only a single cluster was left hanging on the vine,” observed Weiser. I imagined that such yield reduction might have prompted premature sugar accumulation, but a 2016 collection that showcases the transparency, elegance and levity for which Weiser-Künstler Rieslings (regardless of their level of residual sugar) have become justly renowned was picked from the 8th to nearly the end of October – not unusually early by estate standards “and the Oechsle levels were entirely within our usual norms,” added Weiser. In another stroke of bad luck, newly acquired parcels in the Trarbacher Taubenhaus and adjacent sector of Schlossberg got hailed on in 2017. But eventually there will be more Weiser-Künstler wine, welcome news to the increasing number of Riesling lovers who now count this estate as among the Mosel’s gems. (For more on its origins, methodology and vineyard holdings, consult the introduction to my account of its 2014s.)

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

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2015 Brut Riesling Enkircher Zeppwingert

Color: Sparkling White

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