Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 NO20231025 Today he farms 1

Today he farms 1

that Stanko championed when almost no one else would

and nothing is fined

Raised 18 months in used barrels

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 NO20231025 Today he farms 1Some things never change, and that is the whole point here. For decades the brothers Alfred and Rolf Merkelbach made Riesling in a cellar barely bigger than a garage in Urzig, working their steep slate parcels by hand and bottling wines that felt like they'd arrived from another era. When they finally retired, the estate passed to the Selbach family just down the river, who kept the same cellar, the same old casks and the same stubbornly hands off