Vollenweider, Riesling Goldgrube "Im Schottel" Trocken, 2024 SO021026 Lauer GGs and this is it

and this is it

kept under 20C

made exclusively from botrytis-affected berries picked out one by one by hand

finely polished tannins through the mid-palate

Full-bodied with slowly maturing red and black fruits

Vollenweider, Riesling Goldgrube "Im Schottel" Trocken, 2024 SO021026 Lauer GGs and this is itThe name Im Schttel comes from Schttung, German for scree a plain description of what this vineyard receives, since a towering rock face directly overhead sheds a steady barrage of stone into it. That gives this parcel of the Wolfer Goldgrube a soil that is extremely stony and dominated by raw grey slate, far poorer than the ground lower down the hill. It also sits higher up the slope and turns more toward the southwest, so it is drier and sunnier