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.
This is basically everything I love about Peter’s wines – AND it’s a Kabinett Trocken AND in liter format. I swoon. The bottling is light and fresh, beautiful herbal notes, rainwater citrus, a bevvy of garden greens and a lovely percolating acidity. Just absolutely transparent wine that feels like it bubbled up from a spring.