Domaine Trapet Pere et Fils, Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru, 2023 SO031024 challenging vintage with variable results—quality

challenging vintage with variable results—quality depended on individual winemaking decisions

partly in neutral oak from top Burgundy and Champagne growers (Egly-Ouriet among them)

with crisp acidity and a dry

a wine built for the dinner table and for aging

Wine made by nuns—and it's delicious

Domaine Trapet Pere et Fils, Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru, 2023 SO031024 challenging vintage with variable results—qualityPicture steep granite terraces climbing toward a medieval castle above Kaysersberg, farmed biodynamically by a family better known for Gevrey Chambertin. That's Schlossberg, one of Alsace's most dramatic Grand Crus, and Trapet's Riesling here is all tension and stone. The soils are granite (weathered biotite granite and gneiss granite migmatite of Kaysersberg), with no schist, which push the wine toward a cool, saline, crushed rock intensity rather