$53.99 6+ bottles (code: 6saves3)

93 points Vinous Media
Drinking window: 2025 - 2045
The 2023 Engelgarten is a field blend of Riesling, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Muscat from alluvial gravels mixed with clay and marl in Bergheim. This is golden in hue, showing its Muscat element with a bright highlight of lemon pith still bound up with flintiness on the nose. The palate is crunchy at first, then relaxing into a note of Mirabelle, showing the ripeness and utter juiciness of 2023. It finishes salty, zesty and long. (Bone-dry)

Grapes: Mostly riesling with Pinot Gris, and Gewurztraminer (medium sweet - Spatlese-like)

The Engelgarten is one of Bergheim's best known terroirs. Its gravelly structure, the white soil and its marked hydric deficit, allows for great physiological maturity of the grapes. The vineyard, quite old, is managed with extreme severity (very short pruning, ploughing, composting). The vine suffers and produces small harvests of magnificent complexity.