Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 Grower Champagne characterful pour from one of

characterful pour from one of the world's highest wine frontiers

a touch of green apple

Rich and intensely sweet

Fermented with full clusters and aged in used oak—modern winemaking honoring old vines in Spain's most exciting region

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Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 Grower Champagne characterful pour from one ofThe '1896' on this label is a birth year: these are ungrafted Riesling vines planted in the Maximin Herrenberg in 1896, which makes them some of the oldest living Riesling vines on the planet. They survived the phylloxera louse that wiped out most of Europe's original rootstock, and they still cling to a rare band of red slate on a steep, south facing Mosel slope. Christopher Loewen ferments the juice with wild yeasts, raises it in big old oak casks,