2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure cover crops

cover crops

Arriving mid-april

Old vines (50 years)

Loire Valley

vines planted in 1950) that yields a wine that is generous and silky with more citrus notes than the cuvées from the southern edge of Chassagne

2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure cover cropsFrom a 0. 25 hectare plot on the almost north facing Brand hill, the 2023 Turckheim Riesling Schneid is replacing the Village RieslingI reviewed the 2021 vintage of that wine earlier in 2024. It opens with ripe, intense and concentrated fruit on the nose and is a mouth filling, dense, elegant and juicy dry Riesling with power, length and intensity. Racked straight from the press into barrels, the wine was kept on the full lees until July and was