Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 ALTCALI site-specific

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less than four miles from the Pacific - foggy

Anne Morey now leads the cellar work and has been turning out increasingly dialed-in reds

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean and surrounding Rosemary Talley's home

We have experimented with the use of Madeira barrels

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 ALTCALI site-specificThe '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,