Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER the estate's wines have found

the estate's wines have found renewed elegance—this 2020 drinks beautifully now while promising graceful evolution

who favors old vines and traditional basket pressing

Drink it straight or add it to your coffee

The wine spends a year in large oak casks

then rested in steel before a six-month bottle age

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER the estate's wines have foundThe '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,