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Peter Leipold, Silvaner Gassberg (Grand Cru) Trocken, 2023

White Wine from Other Germany, Germany
by Peter Leipold
$51.99
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If you want to taste limestone in a glass, start here. The Gassberg is a limestone-riddled vineyard, and Peter Leipold's Grand Cru Silvaner from it is all salt and stone and linear precision. This is one of two top single-site Silvaners he makes, deliberately paired against his sandstone bottling to show how radically soil shapes the same grape. Leipold is a young grower in Franken with a serious pedigree and a light touch in the cellar. Bone-dry, mineral, and cut like glass, this is Silvaner as a soil transmitter.

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More about Peter Leipold

Peter Leipold uses Silvaner, Franken's signature grape, to show what different soils taste like, and he's become one of the young German growers most worth following. Klaus Peter Keller, his mentor, has singled him out as one to watch.

Peter came home to Obervolkach, in the heart of Franken's wine country, near Volkach, in 2018. Before that he spent two years with Keller and time at Liger-Belair in Burgundy. Now he farms about six hectares alongside his father Paul. The soils are the point. His Silvaners are labeled by geology: Muschelkalk (shell limestone), Keuper (marl) and Schilfsandstein (reed sandstone). Two top "Grand Cru" bottlings, one from the limestone Gässberg and one from sandstone, show how far apart one grape can go. That "Grand Cru" is Peter's own label for his best sites, not an official classification. The Silvaners get a few hours to a day of skin contact, and the whites are raised mostly in steel with some oak, on the lees.

There's also Scheurebe, Riesling and Pinot Noir. The Pinots are partly whole-cluster and aged in older barrels, some of them from Burgundy. Across the range the wines are bone-dry, precise and mineral, with a crackling energy.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Silvaner

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Style

    Crisp , Elegant , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Oysters, grilled fish, shellfish, sushi, or fresh chevre.

Tasting Profile

Bone-dry and light-bodied, with citrus and orchard fruit over intense, salty limestone minerality. Precise and cutting.

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