2023 Vollenweider Goldrube Kabinett Wurzelecht Loire White and old vines

and old vines

Rödchen is a cooler site but this being an Auslese is the ripest of grapes in the vineyard with some botrysis sneaking in however still maintaining lightning like acidity

and a hint of licorice

and hooked by a certain density and nobility that speaks to its terroir

2023 Vollenweider Goldrube Kabinett Wurzelecht Loire White and old vinesThis wine comes Moritz's old vine, ungrafted parcels in the Goldrube. A bit more baroque and powerful than his other Kabinett bottling from the same site. When we tasted this wine in the spring with Moritz my notes for this wine had one word: WOWZA. Vollenweider is quite simply, among the greatest practitioners of Kabinett on planet earth, part of a very small and elite group including Julian Haart, Egon Mller, Keller, Weiser Knstler and Willi