all aged and finished with the minimal dosage that lets the terroir shine
around Setúbal and Lisboa—so finding it here
with light tannins and high-toned acidity
and the Produttori del Barbaresco's Riserva bottlings from it are among the great values in age-worthy wine anywhere
a grower's answer to Champagne from an Italian outsider who does it his own way
Schafer-Frohlich, Riesling Fruhlingsplatzchen GG, 2024 NO20231121 all aged and finished withIf the Felseneck GG shows off blue slate, this one shows off red rock. Fruhlingsplatzchen is a grand cru in Monzingen and Tim Frohlich's only site of weathered red slate and rhyolite, iron rich volcanic soil on a sun drenched, wind swept south facing slope. The geology gives a completely different personality: herbal spice, salinity, and a gentler, rounder line where Felseneck is all cool tension. From roughly 50 year old vines and made bone dry with