Dried-strawberry and blue-fruit aromas with some lavender follow through to a medium body with firm tannins that are polished and long.
Grape: RieslingRegion: NaheVillage: AylVineyard: KuppSoil Type: SlateProduction: Spontaneous fermentation and aging in stainless steel.
This is the domaine’s horse, a wine that never fails to make the cut for Bettane & Desseauve’s annual Guide des Vins, France’s most serious guide. The Guide notes the "perfect maturity" the Natters obtain from their grapes, and that maturity, coupled with native yeast fermentation in foudre, accounts for the intense aromas and rich texture of the wine. It spends a minimum of six months aging in the big casks. Production averages 8,500 cases.
Here there is notably better typicity with its nose of ripe pear, mineral reduction and algae. The sleek, delicious and more voluminous flavors that possess solid mid-palate density while displaying good precision on the clean, dry and sneaky long finale....
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