Peter Leipold, Silvaner Gassberg Grand Cru Trocken, 2023 CHAMPCT0612 Old Stones blends estate fruit

Old Stones blends estate fruit from volcanic and marine sedimentary soils across Dundee Hills

Willi Schaefer crafts Rieslings of remarkable finesse from the estate's steep slate vineyards

this wine comes from vines grafted onto Vitis Rupestris rootstock—planted in the 1940s in Cappellano's Serralunga vineyard

and earthy undertones

We were shocked by this truly Californian expression of true Nebbiolo

Peter Leipold, Silvaner Gassberg Grand Cru Trocken, 2023 CHAMPCT0612 Old Stones blends estate fruitIf 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,