7/30/22, 9:29 AM - Both the standard and magnum sized bottles of the 2015 Piesporter Goldtröpfchen are the same ’Gruft’ matured in small oak barrels, but for some reason it’s not stated on the label of the standard-sized bottle. From 2016 onwards it says Gruft on the label of the 750 ml bottle as another cadaster-specific GG from the Goldtröpfchen vineyard, called ’Hohlweid’, was introduced. (The Hohlweid is made entirely in stainless steel, but in later years with some whole berries left in for added texture). I suspect the 2015 Gruft magnum came out when there were two different GG:s and the label needed clarification. The 2020 vintage now even states the exact cadaster name - Ober der Gruft - on the back label.
7/31/22, 11:50 PM - Short answer: yes.Long answer: The 1971 German wine law prohibited the use on the label of any geographical location narrower than an official vineyard site (e.g. Piesporter Goldtröpfchen). Since 2014 it is allowed to use narrower geographical terms and the 2021 reform of the wine law (which replaces the old law in 2025) expressly allows for the use of narrower geographical terms so long as they are registered in the official cadaster (aka the land register of Germany). The German term for such a site is a ’Gewann’.However, to make things more complex, the 1971 wine law lumped together several vineyards into one while usually retaining the name of the most well-known one. One such case is the Piesporter Goldtröpfchen, which used to be much smaller until several other vineyards were consolidated into it. One such vineyard that got stuffed into the Goldtröpfchen is the Gruft, which is shown e.g. already on the 1868 Prussian tax map. Another vineyard, the Hohlweid, is marked on the 1906 (fourth edition) of the Prussian tax map.From a historical standpoint what today are Gewanne can be either a former single vineyard or a sector within a single vineyard. There are also cases where these historical sectors are not in the land register, but they are referenced to in the context of the old tax maps.It is very common to leave out any prefixes, since they don’t usually carry any information. Examples of these are Zeltinger Sonnenuhr ’Bömer’ (’Im Bömer’), Ürziger Würzgarten ’Kranklei’ (’In der Kranklei’), and Erdener Treppchen ’Herzlei’ (’In der Herzlei’). Sometimes they do carry information, such as Saarburger Rausch ’Auf dem Rausch’ as the long name distinguishes the Gewann from the actual vineyard.When the front label says ’Gruft’ and the back label says ’Ober der Gruft’ it is the same thing - a historical vineyard that lives on as a Gewann. However, things are not so simple when it comes to the ’Hohlweid’. It is one historical vineyard, but nowadays two separate Gewanne - ’In der Holhweid’ and ’Unten in der Hohlweid’. As Lehnert-Veit’s current 2018 Piesporter Goldtröpfchen GG Hohlweid does not carry the exact Gewann name, it is not possible to know without asking whether this refers to the historical Hohlweid as a whole or just to either of the current Gewanne.The approximate locations of each Gewanne can be viewed on the cadaster map of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate here:https://maps.rlp.de/?layerIDs=7,172&visibility=true,true&transparency=0,NaN¢er=351192.87790265493,5528127.46188297&zoomlevel=10
8/1/22, 7:27 AM - (The Gewann ’Im Bömer’ - perhaps best known from a bottling by Selbach-Oster - lies in the Zeltinger Schloßberg vineyard and not in the Sonnenuhr as I falsely claimed.)
12/11/19, 12:08 PM - This is, unfortunately, the house style ever since the early 2010s when importers and sommeliers (especially restaurant Noma in Copenhagen where Trossen wines are a staple of the wine list) started requesting that the wines be unsulfured. Since this ”natural wine” is made reductively in stainless steel (an alloy that does not appear naturally on this planet...) and the variety is the high-acid, low-pH riesling grape, the wine ends up like this: clean but oxidized. These same importers then went to Thorsten Melsheimer and Ulrich Stein and asked them to make unsulfured wines, too. Their ”natural” wines end up being different beasts since they are fermented and aged in old oak, which exposes the wine to oxygen early on and later protects the wine from tasting oxidized in the way Trossen wines do.
10/25/18, 12:36 PM - Nick: They have it in restaurant Leib in Tallinn. The restaurant is one of the best in town, whereas the Rondo is quite the opposite :) http://www.leibresto.ee/en/
1/11/18, 9:52 PM - When it comes to acidity, this one goes to eleven. There’s 11.4 g/L of it in this one :)
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