Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 OLDRIOJA The same long

The same long

Mohrhardt yielded just enough fruit for us to fill a few barrels amounting to a mere 150 cases bottled for the vintage

so pour it generously to kick off your next dinner party

which makes it the way into a cellar where most bottles disappear for the better part of a decade

This is the real thing

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 OLDRIOJA The same longSome things never change, and that is the whole point here. For decades the brothers Alfred and Rolf Merkelbach made Riesling in a cellar barely bigger than a garage in Urzig, working their steep slate parcels by hand and bottling wines that felt like they'd arrived from another era. When they finally retired, the estate passed to the Selbach family just down the river, who kept the same cellar, the same old casks and the same stubbornly hands off