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Stein, Palmberg Riesling Spatlese Trocken, 2023

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Ulrich “Ulli” Stein has long championed the Mosel’s most extreme sites—terraced, ungrafted, and nearly impossible to farm. Palmberg is one of his crown jewels: a steep, south-facing vineyard in St. Aldegund planted with old vines on pure slate, yielding Riesling that’s both intense and laser-focused.

The 2023 Spätlese Trocken takes the ripeness of a late harvest and channels it through a dry, mineral frame. There’s depth here—stone fruit, white tea, crushed herbs—but the defining feature is structure. Electric acidity, fine phenolics, and that unmistakable smoky-slate edge give the wine both grip and clarity. It’s wild but precise, with the kind of inner tension that rewards both decanting and long cellaring.

This is not your entry-level dry Riesling—it’s a wine for purists, built from extreme farming and bottled with zero compromise. Serve it with roasted root vegetables, sushi, or alpine cheeses—or just give it time and space. Palmberg doesn’t shout, but it resonates.

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Germany's Mosel River Valley is the most frightful place on earth to make wine. Its dangerously steep slate slopes — perfect for capturing sunlight and radiating heat to ripen Riesling in this marginal climate — are being abandoned. The (sometimes literal) backbreaking labor and cost to work them has proven too great for many of the farmers of the region, especially considering the pitiful prices many of the wines fetch in today’s market.

But one man, Ulli Stein, is on a crusade to save them. Like your favorite eccentric uncle, he’s educated, passionate and not afraid to step on toes to do what he feels is right. He’s fought the German government and the EU to save historical traditions of the region, and won. He refuses to submit to wine critics for reviews, letting the wines garner their own attention — which they do.

Ulli isn’t fighting just to prove a point. He’s fighting for his national treasure. The Alfer Holle vineyard (or “Hell”) is his pinnacle. The vines were planted, like the name of the wine suggests, in 1900. They are, like most of Ulli’s vines, ungrafted on single stakes in pure slate at death defying angles. With tiny berries on little bunches, the airflow is constant, botrytis is never a problem and the juice to skin ratio means these are some of the most concentrated wines out there.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Riesling

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

German Wines

Is there a better grape than Riesling? Is there a better value? Its fruit purity, its perfume, and its mineral nuance are all unparalleled. And for centuries, the top German Rieslings were priced accordingly: at least as expensive as the top red wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. But nowadays you could spend a lifetime exploring Germany’s great Riesling-producing regions while staying well within your budget. You might take an occasional break to try Germany’s other white grapes or perhaps a glass of Spätburgunder (the local name for Pinot Noir). It’s time to get started!

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