2008 Hexamer Schlossbockelheimer In Den Felsen Trocken
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Hexamer Schlossbockelheimer In Den Felsen Trocken-2008-750ml-Standard-White-Germany
Hexamer Schlossbockelheimer In Den Felsen Trocken-2008-750ml-Standard-White-Germany
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| Terry Thiese | |
| Hexamer is emblematic of the best of cutting edge thinking among quality-minded vintners. He's a vineyardist first, only thereafter a cellarmaster. I can only attempt to optimize in the cellar what I pull from the vineyard; the quality of the grapes is decisive. He often harvests riper grapes from another site (Marbach) but the wines of Rheingrafenberg are more filigree and betterstructured. He handles as little as possible. Doesn't deacidify, doesn't use dosage. The grapes are picked exclusively by hand and fermented very cold (below 12 degrees celsius) with cooling when necessary (but we often pick so late we bring naturally cold fruit below 10 degrees back to the winery.) Yields are controlled by pruning. We often end up with only six to eight bunches per vine. Most of the wines are whole-cluster pressed; The most filigree wines come from this method. 95% of all Rieslings are made in stainless steel, and only racked three to six weeks after fermentation is complete. The wines are bottled early to preserve their vigor Don't be mad if it ends up being Spätlese, because on March 9th when I was there Harald hadn't made up his mind. Nor should he have to be wrenched into our need to know now. The wine itself was unfinished but it was certainly the juiciest and most exotic of the 08 Trocken series. |