- Region
- Sachsen
- Producer
- Weingut Martin Schwarz
- Vintage
- 2023
- Grape varieties
- 100% Riesling
- Bottle size
- 75 cl
- Ratings
- 92 points Robert Parker
- Alcohol
- 12.5%
- Classification
- VDP.Grosse Lage®
- Special characteristic
- Contains sulphites
92
Selective manual harvest followed by 48 hours of skin contact. The Riesling juice relies on wild-yeast strains to ferment in two used 300-litre oak casks, before maturing in oak for ten months. The wine then spends a further seven months in stainless steel on its fine lees.
Very pure on the nose, with yellow citrus and stone fruit, dried herbs, almond, fine smoke and broken stone. The wine opens up with air to reveal greater depth. Dense, driven, precise and grippy on the palate, with juicy acidity and saline minerality. Additional tension and persistence on a long, balanced, mineral finish.
Martin Schwarz and Grit Geissler farm six hectares of steep terraced vineyards overlooking the River Elbe, doing everything by hand. Kapitelberg in Meissen, one of best vineyards in Sachsen, has been classified as a VDP.Grosse Lage (grand cru) since 2022. Vines over 40 years of age send their roots deep into weathered granite soils, producing wines of impressive minerality, precision and depth.