Weingut Franzen, Bremmer Calmont Riesling Kabinett, 2025 [Pre-Arrival ETA 8/6] SO052126 WeiKu or Tio Pepe

or Tio Pepe

or Old Pal

The vines grow on granite soils in the traditional pergola system

the fruit is gently worked with light daily pressings and a couple of foot punchdowns near the end of fermentation

farmed biodynamically since the 1990s

Weingut Franzen, Bremmer Calmont Riesling Kabinett, 2025 [Pre-Arrival ETA 8/6] SO052126 WeiKu or Tio PepeWeingut Franzen farms the Bremmer Calmont, widely called the steepest vineyard in Europe, a dizzying wall of slate on the Mosel that pitches up to a 60 percent gradient. Kilian and Angelina Franzen continue the heroic recultivation work Kilian's father began, hand tending terraces. This Kabinett shows why the effort is worth it: a light, low alcohol, off dry Riesling of remarkable delicacy and tension, all driven by that blue grey Devonian slate. It's