Jurtschitsch, Riesling Heiligenstein 1st Lage, 2023 bdycount091824 treat it like a white

treat it like a white wine

still becoming something new

the fruit is fermented in open oak casks and aged two years in large Stockinger barrels

Made with organically farmed fruit and minimal intervention

then gets a long maceration and patient barrel and foudre aging

Jurtschitsch, Riesling Heiligenstein 1st Lage, 2023 bdycount091824 treat it like a whiteThe Zbinger Heiligenstein is one of the great Riesling hills of the world, and its soil is genuinely strange: a reddish, 270 million year old desert sandstone shot through with volcanic conglomerate, laid down in the Permian era and now somehow sitting at the surface. Vines almost never get to grow on rock this ancient, and you can taste the difference this dry Riesling has a smoky, mineral intensity that only Heiligenstein delivers. Jurtschitsch