Falkenberg' Riesling [Trocken]

Variety: Riesling
Region: Mosel
Appellation: Mosel
Vineyard: Piesporter Falkenberg
Soil Type: Slate
Fermentation and Élevage: Spontaneous fermentation in fuder; kept on the lees for 18 months, then held in bottle for at least 2 years before release
Farming: Practicing Organic

On Dirk’s first trip back to the Mosel in many years, Phillip and Dirk stopped for lunch at a fine restaurant. Dirk asked the proprietor for the best dry Mosel in the house. They were served a 1997 Auslese Trocken from Fritz Haag. Wilhelm Haag, the winemaker and a legend in his time was the mentor of Dirk, and this wine became the blueprint for what they wanted to create with Falkenberg. Philipp says, “After having this wine, we decided to make that kind of style of wine. We see this as a Mosel GG—we can show structure and power and viscosity with time, not alcohol. We like people thinking about this wine as a GG, but our style, without the alcohol you get from GG wines normally.”