2025 Peter Lauer Riesling "No. 6 Senior", Saar, GermanyABOUT THIS WINE The wine is called Senior as a tribute to Florians grandfather who was already in the 1950s famous at least in the Saar Valley for his dry Riesling. So the story goes, he would walk through the cellar and taste all the barrels and then write Senior on the cask he wanted for his own drinking. Nine times out of ten, the cask he took was good ole Fass, or barrel, #6, sourced from parcels in the western most part of the Kupp (to the left

capturing exceptional phenolic ripeness while preserving freshness and moderate alcohol—a hallmark of this beautifully balanced vintage

The vineyard's proximity to the Rhine River contributes to the wine's distinctive character

the must ferments into oak

Their colors evolve and opt for a dark shade

Sourced from select vineyard sites within Stellenbosch

Aged in neutral vessels to preserve freshness

and the wine is aged in large

The 2020 crop of petite

very minimal débourbage

the remainder in Portlandian limestone (which has less clay than Kimmeridgian but more than Oxfordian)

The bottling is done at the autumn period until the end of March

and plum flavors