Julian Haart Rote Erden Riesling, Rheinhessen, Germany 2023

Julian Haart apprenticed with Egon Müller, Klaus Peter Keller, and Werner Schönleber. That’s like learning to draw under da Vinci, Picasso, and Warhol.

From vineyards that he exchanged with Keller. This is the declassified fruit from both sites, Frauenberg, a marl and limestone site with red clay, and Zellerweg am Schwarzen Herrgot, a more obscure site in a cool valley that’s just south and west of Keller’s home base in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, blended together to producer a stunning dry, village-level wine. This "RoteErden" is the declassified fruit from these two Grand Cru; this is a village-level dry Riesling only in name, as it is sourced from the two Grand Cru sites.