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Riesling Senior Ayler Fass 6, Peter Lauer - 2022

Name: Riesling Senior Ayler Fass 6, Peter Lauer
Brand: Peter Lauer
SKU: 44402
Price: 29.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 44402 750mL

One of the great steals on our shelves as this is in fact a single vineyard wine coming from the Grand Cru, Kupp, however it is sold as a village wine. The average age of the vines are 70 years, many of which are ungrafted vines. 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 which always ended up as cask, or Fass, number 6.

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Color

White

Vintage

2022

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

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