Peter Lauer - Riesling "Kupp" Kabinett Fass 8 2024 (750ml)
Price: $39.99
| Producer | Peter Lauer |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Mosel-Saar-Ruwer |
| Varietal | Riesling |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Sku | 205602 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Peter Lauer Description
Florian’s general style is exactly the opposite of his famous Saar neighbor Egon Müller. At Lauer, the focus is on dry-tasting Rieslings as opposed to the residual sugar wines of the latter. For this style, there are really only two addresses in the Saar (though more come online every year, trying to chase the style): Lauer and Hofgut Falkenstein.
Employing natural-yeast fermentations, Lauer’s wines find their own balance. They tend to be more textural, deeper and more broad-shouldered. They have a preternatural sense of balance, an energy that is singular. Yet the hallmarks of the Saar are there: purity, precision, rigor, mineral.
Florian’s playground is the breathtaking hillside of the Kupp, pictured at the top of the page, with a map of the area directly above. Though the many vineyards of this mountain were unified (obliterated?) under the single name “Kupp” with the 1971 German wine law, it has been Florian’s life’s work to keep the old vineyard names alive, to keep these voices alive. He has been fighting this fight since his first vintage in 2005 and only with an update to the law in 2014 can he now legally use the older vineyard names such as Unterstenberg, Stir, Kern and Neuenberg.
Florian fought the law, and he won.
In addition to the expanses of the Kupp, Lauer farms three other important sites, Feils, directly across the river, and the precipitous, cliff-vineyard Schonfels, a bit upstream from the other two sites and, finally, the once-famous Lambertskirch, just a stone’s throw from Schonfels. This was a site with a huge reputation in the 19th and mid-20th century, yet it was abandoned. Lauer cleared the site and replanted it himself.
Lauer, in the end, makes the driest-tasting Kabinetts around, period. Among the lightest and most petite of Kupp Kabinetts in a long while – damn.
Tasting Note: "The 2024 Kupp Kabinett N°8, as it is referred to in the central part of the label, was made from fruit harvested on the original Kupp hill and was fermented down to fully off-dry levels of residual sugar (31 g/l). It initially proves still quite reductive, but quickly shows great complexity and freshness of spearmint, lime, white peach, spices, freshly cut herbs, herbal tea, and wet stone. The wine proves light-weighted and very pure on the palate and leaves an off-dry rather than fully fruity, long finish. This is a great drinking Kabinett."
- Mosel Fine Wines (No 76 July 2025)
