Gunther Steinmetz, Chenin Blanc Kestener Paulinsberg, 2024 OTHERREGION and just a hint of

and just a hint of earthiness that keeps it grounded

The 2020 vintage opens with lifted aromatics: rose petal

made with the same care as the estate's cru wines but priced and built for the dinner table

Creamy and saline with clean volcanic minerality

Light and clean on the nose with subtle sweet corn and soft minerality

Gunther Steinmetz, Chenin Blanc Kestener Paulinsberg, 2024 OTHERREGION and just a hint ofChenin Blanc on the Mosel is almost a contradiction in terms, and that is exactly why Stefan Steinmetz planted it. On the brutally steep gray slate of the Kestener Paulinsberg, he put in Loire's great chameleon grape in 2021, and this 2024 is the very first bottling off those young vines. It comes out bone dry and sunlit, with the salinity and cut you expect from great Mosel slate wearing an unfamiliar accent. Consider this a front row seat to an