LeipoldRiesling Lump Trocken (750ml)

This is an estate we were introduced to by Klaus Peter Keller. Peter Leipold, the young son who is taking over the winery, simply has “the touch,” I don’t know how else to say it. Nearly every wine I’ve tasted from the estate is incredibly linear, light, incisive and penetrating yet also electric. Two words keep coming to mind: saturation and evaporation. The wines have a super-fine, glycerine density to them, yet then they are gone, weightless… only the energy reverberating. These wines are Silvaner as mineral scalpel; drink carefully.

Eschendorfer Lump is a Grand Cru site with 75+ percent gradient, along the Main river with a very stony shell limestone soil – and this is Peter’s first vintage after acquiring a few rows here. Everything must be done by hand and the vines are over 50 years old. 60% Stainless Steel and 40% used DRC barrels. While the proximity to the river creates a warm vineyard, Peter’s goal is to make an elegant and mineral focussed Riesling. 700 bottles produced.