2024 Weiser-Künstler Ellergrub Grand Cru Riesling, Mosel, Germany Tim Smith 2016 Palmento Costanzo Mofete Etna

2016 Palmento Costanzo Mofete Etna Rosso Sicily

fourteen-day maceration in stainless steel tanks

35% Müller Thurgau

From mid-slope vines owned by Justin’s mother on the famed La Madone hillside

All his grapes are hand-harvested and vinified with full clusters in order to extract all the organoleptic qualities

2024 Weiser-Künstler Ellergrub Grand Cru Riesling, Mosel, Germany Tim Smith 2016 Palmento Costanzo Mofete EtnaA mere 100 yards from Gaispfad and everything and nothing changes. Here the soil changes from red, iron flecked slate in Gaispfad to pure, hard grey blue slate. The wines from Ellergrub thus always tend to the more ethereal: anise, lavender, blueberry, rainwater All the wines have this lightness, this expansiveness there is an acid, a linear quality to the wines, yet they are not fine they are ethereal and expansive, almost non tangible the feeling is