The Furstentum vineyard is nestled in the wind-protected valley of Kaysersberg and Sigolsheim. It is a 30.5 hectare south-southwest site with brown calcareous skeletal soil, a limestone-marl-sandstone terroir from the Middle Jurassic, covered on the surface with Tertiary conglomerates. The slope is very steep at 37 %. The vineyard was already mentioned in 1330 in the inventory for wines of a Basel monastery. The vines are about 30 years old.

Color
medium straw yellow

Nose
The 2020 Riesling Grand Cru Furstentum is so intense, so powerful and at the same time so clear and precise, as one is used to from the site, but also from the winemaker. At the same time, 2020 is certainly a particularly fine, delicate and harmonious vintage, which expresses itself in bell-clear citrus and orange fruit, fresh stone fruit, grapes and hints of petrol, stone and petrichor.

Palate
On the palate the Furstentum full and intense, silky and creamy, lively as well as salty, offering a fine grip on the palate. Indeed, with its tightly woven acid structure and saline components, bright stone and stone fruit, and the juice and tangy zest of limequats, the wine seems as complex as the terroir from which it comes. It is a highly complex grand cruwhich is only just beginning to grow, but is already a joy to behold if you give it a few hours of air.