Wine Information:
This is an 1er Lage but I think only for Riesling. The soil is crazy – silica-heavy primary
rock with weathered mica-schist, granite and quartzite; in southeast terraces there’s
even loess. The vineyard is high and windswept and has extremes of temperatures.
Even this GrüVe speaks with a Riesling accent. It’s sweet of Willi to let me offer it only
in some vintages, and this ’09 is a beauty; smooth, flute-like but with a tight mineral
pith that gives an endless iron spine to the finish and pulls the peppery beans in its
torque-y slipstream. Man this is easy to love! I was reduced to grunts and sighs.
