LeipoldScheurebe Alte Reben Trocken 2022 (750ml)

This is an estate we were introduced to by Klaus Peter Keller. Peter Leipold, the young son who is taking over the winery, simply has “the touch,” I don’t know how else to say it. Nearly every wine I’ve tasted from the estate is incredibly linear, light, incisive and penetrating yet also electric. Two words keep coming to mind: saturation and evaporation. The wines have a super-fine, glycerine density to them, yet then they are gone, weightless… only the energy reverberating. These wines are Silvaner as mineral scalpel; drink carefully.

This comes from 35-year-old vines growing on one of the highest parcels on the Muschelkalk hill and raised in stainless steel. This is simply one of the great Scheurebes in the world and maybe the only other one that plays in the same league is Keller’s. Beautiful wine and one of the few to capture the grape’s charm while also turning it into something structured and serious.