Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 bis-hidden stone-strewn terroir as its more

stone-strewn terroir as its more famous neighbor

which immediately hit the headlines

sophisticated

stony and deeper

this is Merlot from Muscadet country

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 bis-hidden stone-strewn terroir as its moreSome 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