2023 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'am Bach' Landwein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Noelia Ricci 30% whole clusters

30% whole clusters

What attracted Littorai to this area of Savoy is an old world notion that the best parcels within a vineyard lie at the toe of the slope

In 1868 the vineyards of this hill were classified by the Prussians as an extraordinary place to make great Rieslings

maceration with the skins lasts 3-4 days

Winemaking: The grapes were harvested at three various times at their optimum maturity and then carefully pressed as whole bunches

2023 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'am Bach' Landwein Trocken, Mosel, Germany Noelia Ricci 30% whole clustersam Bach, meaning By the stream is a single vineyard Riesling harvested from seven small parcels ranging in size from 400 to 900 square meters in the vineyard Sankt Aldegunder Himmelreich. Throughout the seven parcels the vines are all ungrafted and range in age, but most were planted after WWII in the 1950s and 60s. One of these parcels dates to pre war, though the records detailing the planting dates were destroyed during the war. It is roughly