2022 Heimat Silvaner

Tasting

Heimat is where it all started. Silvaner from the Muschelkalk hill a few minutes from the yard, on vines planted in 1984. We've known this vineyard long enough to know it never tells the same story twice. If you want to know what a vintage was like, open a Heimat. 2022 was hot and dry, yet a surprising amount came together. Healthy, ripe grapes and an unhurried harvest on 8 September. Destemmed, seven days on the skins, then a year on full lees in a Halbstück, a 600-litre cask, and half a year in steel. You can see the skins in the colour and feel them in the tannin. The warmth of the summer is there, but the wine doesn't lug it around. With air it broadens and settles. Time helps twice here: first in the cellar, then again once the bottle is open. Drinking well now, with plenty still ahead of it.