BrandSilvaner Pur ‘Elis’ 2019 (750ml)

This comes from a tiny site of old-vine Silvaner (40 years and much older) that was tended by an older lady in the village named Elis; when she retired she gifted the parcel to the brothers who now tend it as one tends a garden. The grapes are picked and the single barrel is allowed to oxidize a bit, so the wine can have something of hay- and grass-driven aromaticity of a great Jura wine. It also has just a rigorous and impressive structure, great juicy salt-laden acids and such rigor, length and depth. This is a meditative wine that deserves to be drunk over days.

Note that all the “Pur” labels are drawn by the brothers’ grandmother (Oma in German); really “natty wine” Oma’s boys.