ÖhlzeltRiesling “Blauenstein” (750ml)

This is a single-vineyard wine; it’s bonkers good – prominently, like jaw-droppingly, mineral – a sorta Steinertal of the Kamptal, with Barbara’s touch. It does taste like Riesling from slate and if the name, “Blauenstein,” or “blue stones” suggests as much, this is only partly true. Yes, there is some slate in this terraced vineyard at about 300 meters (1,200 feet) elevation, there is also gneiss and amphibolite. In fact it is the amphibolite, says Barbara, that gives the stones in the vineyard their blue color. So there.