Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 CRV10 José Luis Bastías and his

José Luis Bastías and his partner Daniela Lorenzo work old

hand-harvests

Nose of stewed fruit

planted with vines that went into the ground in 1946 and 1953

and an almost Medoc-like tannic architecture

Carl Loewen Longuicher Riesling Erste Lage Trocken Maximin Herrenberg 1896 Alte Reben 2024 CRV10 José Luis Bastías and hisThe '1896' on this label is a birth year: these are ungrafted Riesling vines planted in the Maximin Herrenberg in 1896, which makes them some of the oldest living Riesling vines on the planet. They survived the phylloxera louse that wiped out most of Europe's original rootstock, and they still cling to a rare band of red slate on a steep, south facing Mosel slope. Christopher Loewen ferments the juice with wild yeasts, raises it in big old oak casks,