Riesling Senior, Peter Lauer
Staff Pick

Riesling Senior, Peter Lauer - 2025

750 mL
Item # 44402

One of the great dry white wines from the Saar on our shelves that Florian Lauer considers a "village" wine even though the fruit comes from the single vineyard of Ayler Kupp. The average age of the wines in 70 years old - many of which are ungrafted. Dubbed "Senior" after Florian Lauer's grandfather who would walk through the cellar in the 1950s and write "senior" on the cask he wanted for his own drinking. Yes, please.
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Color
White
Vintage
2025
Country
Germany
Region
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
Producer
Peter Lauer
Grape Variety
Riesling
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Staff Pick Notes

One of my fellow wine group members recently treated me to a GG of Peter Lauer's "Grand Cru" Kupp vineyard, a wine made using only the best grapes from the parcel versus his other GGs, which use fruit from the entirety of their respective vineyards. It blew me away with its intensity, depth, and laser-like precision and quickly got me looking to try more from this producer. My heart absolutely fluttered when we got this in! The Fass 6 Senior, while considered a village-level wine, is actually a single-vineyard wine using grapes from the Westernmost portion from that esteemed Kupp parcel. We're talking average 70-year-old ungrafted vines here. Left with some residual sugar to calm down the acidity, this is full of juicy peaches, apricot, ginger, and orange blossoms. Grand Cru wine for village-level pricing, need I say more?

- JOS

More About This Wine

Germany

German wines are some of the most jubilantly fruity bottles in the world. The country's Rieslings have been prized worldwide for centuries, yet they have never quite caught on in the U.S.: this no doubt due to Germany’s arcane system of wine classification. The most useful words to know on German wine labels are “Kabinett,” which indicates an outstanding everyday wine, and “trocken,” which means “dry.” As far as dessert wines go, a half-bottle of German Eiswein is so potent that you'll be able...

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Riesling

Though the trend is now in the other direction, for many years Riesling was known for producing wines with little alcohol and some residual sugar - too sweet for many modern wine drinkers. Though it's now cultivated worldwide, Riesling is nearly synonymous with German wine, and that country's winemakers have lately begun to produce some very exciting dry versions. They are careful to retain the delightful honeyed, flinty flavors that the best sweet Rieslings have always displayed. Alsace, of...

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