This is an estate we were introduced to by Klaus Peter Keller. Peter Leipold, the young son who is taking over the winery, simply has “the touch,” I don’t know how else to say it. Nearly every wine I’ve tasted from the estate is incredibly linear, light, incisive and penetrating yet also electric. Two words keep coming to mind: saturation and evaporation. The wines have a super-fine, glycerine density to them, yet then they are gone, weightless… only the energy reverberating. These wines are Silvaner as mineral scalpel; drink carefully.
This is his “Grand Cru” – top quality pinot noir – some new barrels and a mix of ex-Conti and Liger-Belair barrels, all free run juice. All French clones, cuttings from undisclosed French vineyard via Daniel Twardowski. Site is southwest facing. 40% new Francois Freres barrels, the rest are used barrels from DRC. 40% whole bunch. 27-year old vines in the “filet” portion of the Lansdknecht Muschelkalk hill.
