DostertChardonnay 2023 (750ml)

This is perhaps the most direct wine in the entire lineup. Sourced from vines planted in the “Filz” parcel (coming from the word “Fels,” which means “rocks”), this is an extremely stony part of the vineyard. The wine was direct-pressed and is beautiful. Classic Dostert.

Awash with green tones, from crushed mint to green apple skins, tons of citrus, this is a lean and taut Chardonnay. It is profoundly clean on the palate, both searing and seductive, compact and faceted like all of Dostert’s wines. The élevage is again brilliantly done, providing just a bit more expansive, softness to a wine that would otherwise be almost too ruthless. This is so primal and elegant and fine, so raw and cooling and of the earth.

Compared to previous years, the Chardonnay from 2023 has a minimal amount of new wood (around 10%). The barrel in question had a very distinctive, reductive note that still characterizes the wine somewhat in very harmonious way.