Weiser-Kunstler Wolfer Sonnenlay Riesling Kabinett 2022
Size: Around 4 hectares with a small amount of purchased fruit. All fruit, both estate and purchased, is farmed organically.
Key grape varieties: Riesling
Soil: slate
Vine age: up to and above 100+ years old and largely ungraIed
Vineyard work: Absolutely no use of insecticides/pesticides; demeter-approved spraying for fungus with minimal copper use (1/3 amount as allowed by organic certifications), minimal plowing, excess vegetation is trimmed, otherwise the soil is left alone. All vineyard work and harvesting is done by hand.
Vinification: Depending on the vintage there will be a light crushing and gentle pressing or direct whole bunch pressing in a pneumatic press. Wines are fermented with native yeasts and raised in a combination of stainless steel, old oak Fuders and some used barriques, different wines will see various vessels based on yield and vintage character. Auslese wines are made from only from botrytised, never dried berries.