LeipoldScheurebe Kabinett 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.

Young vines on the highest plain on the top the Landsknecht hill, fermented and aged all in stainless steel. Beautiful wine and one of the few to capture the grape’s charm while also turning it into something structured and serious. Scheurebe is a cross of Riesling with wild vine, often fragrant and opulent. Leipold’s is bone dry and cutting.