Schafer-Frohlich, Riesling Dry Schiefergestein, 2018 chamct0626 toasted oak

toasted oak

Base of white wine

A most surprising sparkling rosé — fruity yet elegant

and making wine like a Burgundian: barrel-fermented with native yeasts

and a fine mineral core

Schafer-Frohlich, Riesling Dry Schiefergestein, 2018 chamct0626 toasted oakBone dry Riesling from Tim Frohlich, who turned a once unknown family estate into one of the Nahe's very best after taking over in the mid 1990s. Schiefergestein means 'slate stone,' a nod to the blue Devonian slate, basalt, and quartz soils of the vineyards around Bockenau, including younger vines from the grand cru Felseneck. The slate gives the wine its racy, mineral spine and crystalline precision. Frohlich works with low yields, wild yeast