2024 BRUTAL!!! Riesling

Tasting

Our story with BRUTAL!!! began long before we were allowed to make a wine with that label ourselves. In 2013 Antony Tortul of La Sorga invited us to taste through his cellar, and after that we kept bumping into each other at natural wine salons. In 2024 we brought a few barrel samples to Italy for a late-night session with Antony and Patrick Bouju. More people turned up, more bottles were opened, and at one wine the room went quiet. Our first BRUTAL!!! had been found. Since then we pick a single barrel each year for the golden label. In 2024 it's a Riesling from a vineyard we planted in 2014 with Michael's parents. Even his grandmother climbed the hill to watch little Oskar water the young vines. Ten years later, spring frost caught exactly this vineyard. What was left just filled a Halbstück, 600 litres. Whole bunches, pressed directly, fermented in that cask, then a year and a half on full lees. Floral notes, a hint of petrol, a deep mineral side and an acidity that never takes a break. Concentrated and still clear. We never know in advance which wine will end up wearing the label. That's rather the point.