2023 Dönnhoff "Oberhäuser Leistenberg" Riesling Kabinett, Nahe, GermanyABOUT THIS WINE The Leistenberg vineyard lies in a small side valley of the Nahe just outside Oberhausen. The name is a double play on words. Leisten means achieve in German, and the Leistenberg perpetually lives up to its name. Lei is also a regional word for slate, and these warm, decomposed clay slate soils and steep terraced hillsides provide ideal conditions for Riesling to thrive. The southeast facing slope basks in the morning sun, which dries

fermentations are spontaneous

surrounded by other prestigious estates

Wines that are meant to be shared with family and friends on a daily basis

In the early 1960s

One of the keys to the location’s significance is that the vines are planted in terraced amphitheaters following the contours of the mountainside

and racked into barrel

no liqueur de tirage and no expedition liqueur

The grapes are picked by hand and sorted carefully before the white ones are pressed and the reds are put in vats

70% destemmed grapes

Fourchaume

Whole-cluster pressing

and to this end