Josef Fischer Gruner Veltliner 'Ried Kreuzberg' Smaragd Wachau 2021 Size:750ml Les Carrières yields a wine

Les Carrières yields a wine of striking complexity for its village-level designation

Here the wine thrusts us into the dense ambience of the forest: the dark berry-like fruit

content on the soils of granitic moraine and black schist

and wild-berry fruit

Alexandre’s friend Sandrine Caloz likes to quip that the Valais is “the real Northern Rhône” (the river’s source lies nearby)

Josef Fischer Gruner Veltliner 'Ried Kreuzberg' Smaragd Wachau 2021 Size:750ml Les Carrières yields a wineThe north facing, partly terraced Kreuzberg vineyard perches above Rossatz at a maximum slope of 59%, covering 27. 05 hectares of paragneiss littered with amphibolite. Kreuzberg produces a profoundly stony and austere version of Grner Veltliner, and Fischer employs used barrels between 500 and 1500 liters for 50% of the blend in order to mitigate the sites tendency toward severity. Carrying a wisp of residual sugar, this masterful wine is nearly