Hofgut Falkenstein, Krettnacher Euchariusberg Riesling Spatlese AP #14, 2017 071425OFFER Atlantic-influenced Bordeaux after a string

Atlantic-influenced Bordeaux after a string of warm

and that stony soil gives the wine cut and definition

and white flowers—a Champagne that demands contemplation alongside raw oysters or cured meats

Berlin-based artist Emeka Ogboh

The 2005 vintage in Bordeaux is legendary—ripe

Hofgut Falkenstein, Krettnacher Euchariusberg Riesling Spatlese AP #14, 2017 071425OFFER Atlantic-influenced Bordeaux after a stringIn most years AP #14 is a single cask from the Ternes parcel; in 2017 it came from two, Frster and Ternes, both high up in the Krettnacher Euchariusberg exactly the kind of difference the Webers' cask by cask bottling exists to make visible. 2017 was the frost year: an April freeze took a third or more of the Mosel crop, the worst losses since 1991, and the fruit that survived arrived with high sugar and high acid at once. The result is a Sptlese