2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster' 1.5L Magnum, Mosel, Germany Richard Brendon The grapes were picked late

The grapes were picked late in the year

the Lagavulin 8-Year-Old palate boasts a magnificently full-on Lagavulin taste that’s somehow even bigger than you expect

Yields are kept at 25 hectoliters per hectare (well below the 50 hl/ha requirement of the appellation)

A nose of yellow fruit

Finger Lakes

2021 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Monster' 1.5L Magnum, Mosel, Germany Richard Brendon The grapes were picked lateThis is a powerful, broad and silly complex Kabinett sourced from what Julian thinks is the best parcel they own in the Ritsch it is also the biggest single parcel at 1. 1 hectares, thus it is called the monster parcel. The wine flashes layers and layers of fruit, a fascinating assortment of ripe apples, pear and citrus oils, all of them edged or underlined by a sweet, earthy balsamic. Its so complex, as if an opulent, tropical world of guava and