2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster' 1.5L Magnum, Mosel, Germany Richard Brendon 100% Procanico - Foot-trod grapes

100% Procanico - Foot-trod grapes are left to macerate with their skins for a week

Vines aged 4 – 50 years

Yields are kept at 25 hectoliters per hectare (well below the 50 hl/ha requirement of the appellation)

Finger Lakes

2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster' 1.5L Magnum, Mosel, Germany Richard Brendon 100% Procanico - Foot-trod grapesThis is a powerful, broad and silly complex Kabinett sourced from what Julian thinks is the best parcel they own in the Ritsch it is also the biggest single parcel at 1. 1 hectares, thus it is called the monster parcel. The wine flashes layers and layers of fruit, a fascinating assortment of ripe apples, pear and citrus oils, all of them edged or underlined by a sweet, earthy balsamic. Its so complex, as if an opulent, tropical world of guava and