2023 Weingut Jurgen Leiner Handwerk Riesling Trocken Pfalz, Germany Danilo Thomain VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée”

VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée” (reasoned organic)

Availability : September 2022

Drawn from high

The wine is aged in steel tanks and yields a dry wine that is light in color and body but which houses subtle tannins

one a 44-year-old selection massale

2023 Weingut Jurgen Leiner Handwerk Riesling Trocken Pfalz, Germany Danilo Thomain VITICULTURE: Viticulture is “lutte raisonée”The Handwerk line is hand crafted as the name suggests: biodynamically grown, manually harvested and vinified in small quantities. You want a dry white but dont want to give up the fruit, ripeness or sex appeal of Riesling? BOOM. This is an explosively flavorful and energetic bottling, loaded with pit fruit propelled by succulent acidity. The flavors go on for a startlingly long time. Part of its secret is sourcing from very high altitude slopes (yes,