Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 ALTCALI This half-bottle is the perfect

This half-bottle is the perfect way to settle the argument that Merlot can be serious

Anne Morey now leads the cellar work and has been turning out increasingly dialed-in reds

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" among many others) founded this Marlborough estate in 1992 with a clear idea: farm biodynamically

Fermented with native yeasts and raised partly in old oak

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 ALTCALI This half-bottle is the perfectThe '1896' on this label is a birth year: these are ungrafted Riesling vines planted in the Maximin Herrenberg in 1896, which makes them some of the oldest living Riesling vines on the planet. They survived the phylloxera louse that wiped out most of Europe's original rootstock, and they still cling to a rare band of red slate on a steep, south facing Mosel slope. Christopher Loewen ferments the juice with wild yeasts, raises it in big old oak casks,