Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER The wine spends a year

The wine spends a year in large oak casks

with iodine and lapsang souchong tea in the foreground

who favors old vines and traditional basket pressing

Predominant aromas of sweet citrus fruit

It is a bold and spicy rye whiskey

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER The wine spends a yearThe '1896' on this label is a birth year: these are ungrafted Riesling vines planted in the Maximin Herrenberg in 1896, which makes them some of the oldest living Riesling vines on the planet. They survived the phylloxera louse that wiped out most of Europe's original rootstock, and they still cling to a rare band of red slate on a steep, south facing Mosel slope. Christopher Loewen ferments the juice with wild yeasts, raises it in big old oak casks,