Hild Elbling Sekt Brut NV Vintage:Non Vintage with tense acidity balanced against

with tense acidity balanced against a lightly creamy note

this Chianti is a “red-and-white-checkerboard-tablecloth” type wine

based on 2018

The finish leaves behind acacia and apple blossoms

Hild Elbling Sekt Brut NV Vintage:Non Vintage with tense acidity balanced againstThe Upper Mosel has nothing to do with Riesling and nothing to do with slate. Instead, we find limestone. The Upper Mosel in fact represents the beginning (or the end?) of the Paris Basin, the geological reality that informs places like Chablis and Sancerre. Instead of Riesling, in the Upper Mosel we find a winemaking culture based on one of Europes oldest grapes: Elbling. Its important to understand that Elbling here feels like something of a