{"title":"Weingut Franzen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlong the Mosel, north of the Middle Mosel's famous villages (Bernkastel and the like), the old generations did great things. They took the incredibly steep slopes that rose sharply from the river, and worked them into terraces, which preserved the advantages of sun exposure while giving vines a chance to develop complex root systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo steep are these mountains that (they say, anyway) the most vertiginous vineyard in all of Europe is here, a place called Bremmer Calmont. It's an ultra-steep, treacherous amphitheater of vines on red Devonian slate. A site that sheer is a lot of work and not a lot of people would be champing at the bit to get in there and get to it. But the husband-wife winery known as Franzen saw the great potential for winemaking, despite—or maybe because of—that hard work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe husband’s father (the kids can't get all the credit) bought all the land he could find in the area, cobbling together an estate from 112 parcels with different owners, including some in China, the US and Australia! And now the kids really are doing the hard work of actually farming—by hand of course—the terraces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"weingut-franzen-bremmer-calmont-riesling-kabinett-2025-750ml","title":"Weingut Franzen, Bremmer Calmont Riesling Kabinett, 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeingut Franzen farms the Bremmer Calmont, widely called the steepest vineyard in Europe, a dizzying wall of slate on the Mosel that pitches up to a 60 percent gradient. Kilian and Angelina Franzen continue the heroic recultivation work Kilian's father began, hand-tending terraces. This Kabinett shows why the effort is worth it: a light, low-alcohol, off-dry Riesling of remarkable delicacy and tension, all driven by that blue-grey Devonian slate. It's the kind of bottle that makes the case for one of Germany's most extreme terroirs in a single glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintus [VTS]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45916640804921,"sku":"NYC-VTS-`3070010025-01`-060526-6","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Weingut-Franzen-Bremmer-Calmont-Riesling-Kabinett-2025-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1786199896"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/weingut-franzen.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}