2023 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'am Bach' Landwein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Noelia Ricci 30% whole clusters

30% whole clusters

The 2022 is only the second vintage of this wine and the first to be in the US

3 hectares of vines on high

Winemaking: The grapes were harvested at three various times at their optimum maturity and then carefully pressed as whole bunches

This wine is pre-arrival and expected to land late April

2023 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'am Bach' Landwein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Noelia Ricci 30% whole clustersam Bach, meaning By the stream is a single vineyard Riesling harvested from seven small parcels ranging in size from 400 to 900 square meters in the vineyard Sankt Aldegunder Himmelreich. Throughout the seven parcels the vines are all ungrafted and range in age, but most were planted after WWII in the 1950s and 60s. One of these parcels dates to pre war, though the records detailing the planting dates were destroyed during the war. It is roughly