Elisabetta Foradori didn't just save Teroldego from obscurity — she made it one of the most thrilling reds in northern Italy
Most German sparkling sits on slate
and month-long maceration
where warm western winds and deep sandy soils push the indigenous Niellucciu (the island's name for Sangiovese) into something juicier
and it shows: this is the most perfumed and silken of the great NSG Premier Crus
Robert Weil, Riesling Spatlese Kiedricher Grafenberg, 2007 moving_liquidation_2 Elisabetta Foradori didn't just saveA sweet, nobly ripe Riesling from Grafenberg, the Rheingau grand cru whose name means "Hill of the Counts" and whose quality has been documented since the twelfth century. Robert Weil sends pickers through this brutally steep, southwest facing slope up to 17 times, selecting only the ripest late harvested fruit off barren phyllite and loess soils, no botrytis here, just concentration from a long, sun drenched hang. That means the sweetness is pure,