Gunderloch, Riesling Erste Lage (1er Cru) Engelsberg, 2024 burgundy_wines-template Traditional Barolo from vines planted

Traditional Barolo from vines planted in the 1940s on Vitis Rupestris rootstock—the conventional post-phylloxera approach

Red slate is the wild card

A love letter to old Cinsault from one of the Swartland's most original voices

Volker Eisele Family Estate

terroir-driven whites

Gunderloch, Riesling Erste Lage (1er Cru) Engelsberg, 2024 burgundy_wines-template Traditional Barolo from vines plantedThe odd one out in Gunderloch's grand cru lineup, and all the more interesting for it. Engelsberg sits high on the hill in Nackenheim, directly above the famous Rothenberg, but its soils are limestone rather than the iron red slate that defines the Roter Hang below. That single geological swap changes everything: where the red slate wines run savory and dark, this premier cru comes across firm, herbaceous, and almost umami savory, dry to the bone and