This is an estate we were introduced to by Klaus Peter Keller. Peter Leipold, the young son who is taking over the winery, simply has ‘the touch,’ I don’t know how else to say it. Nearly every wine I’ve tasted from the estate is incredibly linear, light, incisive, and penetrating yet also electric. Two words keep coming to mind: saturation and evaporation. The wines have a super-fine, glycerine density to them, yet then they are gone, weightless…only the energy reverberating. These wines are Silvaner as mineral scalpel; drink carefully. Bottled in a bocksbeutel y’all…
This is a collaboration bottling between Source Material and Weingut Leipold. On the bottle it says: “Only 100 jeroboams of this wine were bottled, to celebrate the reopening of the world and a return to our collective humanity; please enjoy together.”
This is a collaboration bottling between Source Material and Weingut Leipold. On the bottle it says: “Only 100 jeroboams of this wine were bottled, to celebrate the reopening of the world and a return to our collective humanity; please enjoy together.”