Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling Trocken GG 2023

Weingut Fritz Haag produces this Riesling Trocken GG from the Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr, in the heart of the central Mosel valley where vines have grown since Roman times. The estate holds seventeen hectares planted entirely to Riesling, worked across the full range from dry to sweet. Grosses Gewächs marks a dry wine from a classified single vineyard, here a steep, sun-facing slope of weathered blue Devonian slate. Slate stores the day's warmth and radiates it back to the vines, ripening the fruit fully on a slope too cool and steep for most grapes, while the wide diurnal swing locks in the piercing acidity that carries the wine. The GG is fermented dry and aged in large old wooden casks, which allow slow oxygen exchange and lees contact to build texture and depth without adding oak flavour, so the wine gains weight while staying transparent to its site. The colour is bright straw. The nose is precise and stony, lemon and white peach over apricot and a flinty, smoky note. The palate is concentrated and dry, taut with racy acidity and a long, saline, mineral finish. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees in a white wine glass.