LeipoldSilvaner “Alte Reben” 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.

35+ year old vines on the same slope and neighboring parcel to Muschelkalk, this however is only from the most stony limestone part of the parcel at the base. Both are South/Southwest facing, the main difference is vine age and the fermentation—100% large German oak  fuder (Spessarteiche)—Rounder edges but firmer structure compared to Muschelkalk. To some extent, this is just a more compact, condense and structured “Muschelkalk” as the soil here is mostly limestone as well. Yet the wine has more density and concentration, more structure and length.