Stefan Vetter is punk rock, crafting some of the most iconoclastic, singular Riesling in Germany. These wines are certainly pushing the limits and not "classic" but decidedly natural. To us they may have more in common with the minerally wines of Chablis or Sancerre than they do with German Riesling.
Vetter works 3.5 hectares of terraced, old vine, mostly Silvaner in the region of Franken, Germany. The wines have risen to cult status — with Eric Asimov of the New York Times even naming one of Stefan's single parcel old vine Silvaners one of his top 10 wines of 2018 (next to First Growth Bordeaux from the 1800's & Bâtard Montrachet, among others). The farming is all superlative, old vines reigning supreme with soil specific parcels and tended lovingly with organic and biodynamic methods.
The “Steinterrassen” wines should be thought of as the 1er Cru wines; they are always sourced from steep, terraced vineyards, from some of the better, older-vine parcels.
The cellar work is also traditional and hands off, everything pressed in an old school basket press one might find at Faustina Pace on Antique Row in West Palm.
