2019 Wilde Heimat

Tasting

Wilde Heimat 2019 is the last vintage of a Silvaner we made for many years. The vines, around fifty years old, stood on a steep Keuper slope, high, sunny and so awkward that no tractor could get up there. What those old vines pulled out of that slope in dry years impressed us every time. Half the grapes had a single night on the skins, the other half around ten days. Then two years in a Halbstück. Hay, dried wildflowers and pear are still there, joined over the years by honey, warmth and a firm mineral tension. The wine is broad and relaxed but not soft, and with air it stretches a long way across the palate. It was never the Silvaner that showed everything at once. Now it's at exactly the point where we most like to open it. There are only a few bottles left.