LeipoldSilvaner Kabinett Trocken (1L)

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.

Usually an average of 25 year old vines on a mix of Muschelkalk (limestone) and Keuper (marl). A couple hours of skin maceration with a warm and fast fermentation in steel tanks, then aged for seven months on the full lees.

This is basically everything I love about Peter’s wines – AND it’s a Kabinett Trocken AND in liter format. I swoon. The bottling is light and fresh, beautiful herbal notes, rainwater citrus, a bevvy of garden greens and a lovely percolating acidity. Just absolutely transparent wine that feels like it bubbled up from a spring.