Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Author DK built around strawberry

built around strawberry

Scott Schultz cut his teeth alongside Pax Mahle at Wind Gap and that cool-climate Syrah pedigree shows up loud in this bottling

vanilla and butter

smooth flavors with a playful spirit

layered with cedar

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Author DK built around strawberrySome 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