{"title":"Julien Renard","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulien Renard is one of the 'new Mosel' growers reimagining what wine from the river's vertiginous terraces can be: picked early, aged long on fine lees, and closer in spirit to Chablis or Savoie than to the Mosel of tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn to a French father and a German mother and raised north of Cologne, Renard first set out for a life in theater. He came to wine through hard physical work, cold-calling estates until Heymann-Löwenstein in Winningen took him on, and he never left the Lower Mosel. Today he farms roughly one hectare of terraces around Winningen, including parcels in the Hamm and Röttgen vineyards, slopes steep even by Mosel standards. Everything is done by hand, organically and without tilling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cellar he treads the grapes by foot, uses a basket press, ferments each parcel separately in used wood, and rests the wines for around two years on their lees, adding little or no sulfur at bottling. Riesling is the focus, alongside Weissburgunder, Chardonnay and Müller-Thurgau. Expect dense, stony, salty whites with real grip, made in tiny quantities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"julien-renard-mosel-chardonnay-weissburgunder-2024","title":"Julien Renard, Mosel Chardonnay\/Weissburgunder, 2024","description":"German Chardonnay has come a long way, and Julien Renard is one of the growers showing just how far. He belongs to a small \"new Mosel\" crowd alongside Jakob Tennstedt, Philip Lardot and Rosalie Curtin, and his wines tend to recall Chablis and the Savoie as much as the Mosel. The 2024 is a comeback story. Frost took almost his entire crop that year, so he bought grapes from other growers to get through the vintage. For Chardonnay and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) it was a lovely year in Germany, and those wines came out precise, lively, firm and long. Renard's own route into wine is just as unlikely. He has a French father and a German mother, grew up north of Cologne with no wine in the family, and his first love was the theatre. Three weeks working for a winemaker changed that: he found it devastatingly hard and loved it. He now works out of Winningen in the Terrassen-Mosel, the lower stretch of the river known for its cliff-like terraced vineyards. His wines are dense, compact and many-layered, so this is a good bottle for anyone who wants a thoughtful white off the beaten path.","brand":"Vom Boden [VBD]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46523878867001,"sku":"NYC-W-VBD-`VBSM170224`-091626-3","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/IMG-4401.jpg?v=1789681049"},{"product_id":"julien-renard-mosel-cuvee-renard-2024","title":"Julien Renard, Mosel Cuvee Renard, 2024","description":"A dry Mosel white that tastes more like Chablis or the Savoie than anything you expect from this river — which is exactly the point. Julien Renard works the vertiginous cliff terraces above Winningen in the Terrassen-Mosel, some of the most dramatic vineyard landscape anywhere, and he got there by an unlikely route: French father, German mother, no wine family at all, and a first love of theatre that he left for the physical work of wine. The house style is early picking and bracing acidity, then a long rest on fine lees that buffs the wine to a satiny, almost porcelain-smooth texture — dense and compact but layered, with citrus oil, mint and salt running through it. 2024 was a cruel year in Germany: two nights of frost at the end of April caught green shoots that a mild winter and warm March had pushed out early, and the valleys and side valleys took the worst of it. That makes this bottling a small thing, and the fact that it arrives with this much polish intact says a great deal about the hands behind it. If you've been curious about the new generation remaking Mosel in a dry, mineral register, start here.","brand":"Vom Boden [VBD]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46523878834233,"sku":"NYC-W-VBD-`VBSM170124`-091626-2","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/IMG-4418.jpg?v=1789681287"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/julien-renard.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}