{"product_id":"weiser-kunstler-riesling-feinherb-mosel-germany-2025","title":"Weiser-Künstler \"Riesling Feinherb\" Mosel, Germany 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROM VOM BODEN:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE WINE: \u003c\/strong\u003eYear in and year out, this is simply one of the great Estate wines available, normally deliacately off-dry or even just barely dry-tasting. This quixotic profile (is it dry or just off-dry?) makes it a veritable Swiss army knife for pairings. The grapes are normally sourced primarily from Trabacher Taubenhaus, supplemented by fruit from their other vineyards. They will never chaptalize, so this wine can range from around 9%-11% depending on vintage with usually between 10-20g of RS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PRODUCER: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe husband-and-wife team of Konstantin Weiser and Alexandra Künstler are perhaps the ultimate winemaker’s winemakers. I have never come across any estate, famous or not, that has expressed anything but awe for what these two do, which is, in short, the following: They farm organically (certified) in a very wet and humid place, in the steepest slopes where there can be no mechanization, receiving meager yields because they farm some of the oldest vines in the Mosel, including 80-100+ year-old, ungrafted vines. In a world of compromises, compromises that are easy and lazy and speak to our weakest selves, but also those that are necessary and painful and speak to the awkwardness of the human condition, Alexandra and Konstantin seem to make no compromises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of their bottlings remind me less of wine, in fact, and more of some wildly delicate distillates (with ABVs of 10% or less), or of very complex spring waters, or of teas? There is fruit present, especially in the Kabinetts and sweeter Prädikat wines, but even here it is often phenolic – not green apple, but green apple skin, not peach, but peach pith. Their style is one of the most singular, most unique in the Mosel. These are wines of the earth in ways that are rarely presented so unadulterated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weiser-Künstler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49120840122624,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/patronsaintwine.com\/products\/weiser-kunstler-riesling-feinherb-mosel-germany-2025","provider":"Patron Saint","version":"1.0","type":"link"}