Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER From the producer: Mommenpop Ruby

From the producer: Mommenpop Ruby Grapefruit is light

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

with iodine and lapsang souchong tea in the foreground

The wine spends a year in large oak casks

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 070726OFFER From the producer: Mommenpop RubyThe '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,