Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Reasonable Cellar 2024 often described as the country

often described as the country cousin of those grander neighbors but capable of real elegance in the right hands

alongside Foillard

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but it'll reward a few years

working only with North America's native varieties and their hybrids

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Reasonable Cellar 2024 often described as the countrySome things never change, and that is the whole point here. For decades the brothers Alfred and Rolf Merkelbach made Riesling in a cellar barely bigger than a garage in Urzig, working their steep slate parcels by hand and bottling wines that felt like they'd arrived from another era. When they finally retired, the estate passed to the Selbach family just down the river, who kept the same cellar, the same old casks and the same stubbornly hands off