2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster', Mosel, Germany Mark Angeli time has also brought the

time has also brought the progression of phylloxera in the vineyard

daily pump-overs and the juice stays on the skins until alcoholic fermentation has completed

Groppello Gentile has thin skins

This wine is drinking beautifully right now

The full clusters were foot trodden in an open wood vat where it was macerated with the skins for three months and aged in barrel for 13 months before being bottled

2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster', Mosel, Germany Mark Angeli time has also brought theThis is a powerful, broad and silly complex Kabinett sourced from what Julian thinks is the best parcel they own in the Ritsch it is also the biggest single parcel at 1. 1 hectares, thus it is called the monster parcel. The wine flashes layers and layers of fruit, a fascinating assortment of ripe apples, pear and citrus oils, all of them edged or underlined by a sweet, earthy balsamic. Its so complex, as if an opulent, tropical world of guava and