2025 Peter Lauer 'Barrel X' Saar Riesling, Mosel, Germany Domaine Leroy and a chalky mineral thread

and a chalky mineral thread borne of Savennières’ famed hillside schist

Two Wolves Vineyard is situated just outside of Happy Canyon AVA in Santa Ynez Valley and features dense shaley clay loam soil

it shows classic floral lift

unfiltered and with very little SO2 addition

The soils are clay-limestone from the Kimmeridgien

2025 Peter Lauer 'Barrel X' Saar Riesling, Mosel, Germany Domaine Leroy and a chalky mineral threadBarrel X is winemaker Florian Lauers Platonic ideal of what a slightly off dry (feinherb) Saar Riesling should be. If we were in Burgundy, this would be the equivalent of a Bourgogne Blanc. As an appellation level wine, it is sourced from multiple vineyards in four different villages of the Saar: Ayl (Lauers home village), Saarburg, Wawern and Wiltingen. Florian says, From Ayl and Wawern, the wine gains the fruit and power, from Saarburg the racy