STIMULATING THE SENSES
A great wine has a sense of something beyond mere taste. A great wine's sense is redolent of its origin, likening it with a holistic representation almost as one would a human being.
An image is created from the combined smell and taste of the wine. When wine is tasted the drinker may see a particular landscape, the old villages, the smell of the local flora, or a taste of the foods originating in these areas.
Such a wine tells you more than just 'raspberry' or 'blueberry' and is rather a landscape in the glass. The ancient hills of Leiwen, Ockfen, Piesport, and others revealed.
Nik Weis has a combined innate and learned desire to show his sense of the Mosel. Besides adhering to the use of indigenous yeasts, the use of the typical 1,000-liter Mosel fuder barrel gives the wines the right amount of 'breathing', of oxygen exchange, to develop greater complexity and refinement.
As the barrels aren't new it's not about imparting an oaky character to the wines. In combination with stainless steel tanks, employed to retain intensity of fruit and freshness by trapping elements from cooler fermentations, these barrels are a primary method of transferring the Mosel essence into your glass.
The stainless steel traps the CO2 in the wine which, naturally preserves it, CO2 which later may be found in extremely fine bubbles in the glass.
Our Journey for Perfection
Many of the St. Urbans-Hof wines
age in the typical fuder barrel. read more
Many of the St. Urbans-Hof wines
age in the typical fuder barrel. read more
