A SPECIAL OFFER ON 2025 FALKENSTEIN RIESLINGS
This installment of Riesling, Right Now! comes with the addition of a special offer, as we take a look at the wines of Hofgut Falkenstein, and announce newly stocked wine from the 2025 vintage.
There is no shortage of superlatives to be found when looking for information about Hofgut Falkenstein. The wines are spectacular!
The father-son estate was founded in 1985 when Erich Weber bought what was then, the worn out “Falkensteinerhof” winery facility, and undertook its labor intensive restoration. If their location of Tälchen, a small side-valley of the Saar, in western Germany, doesn’t come up clearly in your mental map, there’s good reason for that. The Weber’s estate is comprised of many historic vineyards whose once storied reputations all but vanished as a result of the Weingesetz (German Wine Law)of 1971.
Luckily, much has changed, and the Webers can be credited for their efforts in producing energetic wines of place, and helping restore some fame to the specific villages and vineyards they work in.
Yields are low because planting is low-density. The vines from which they harvest are old. Minimal intervention is a guiding principle in the cellar. Whole-bunch pressing. Gravity flow winemaking. Fermentations are native yeast only, and kept at cool temperatures in neutral 1000-litre fuder, (sometimes as old as 75+). Enzyme adds, protein stabilizers, clarifying agents, and chaptalization are prohibited at the Weber estate, as is artificial concentration or de-acidification.
Each year, the same vineyard plot goes into the same numbered cask, and is then bottled according its corresponding A.P. number. Every German wine bottling has a unique AP, or Amtliche Prüfungsnummer, printed on its label. It’s typically the sort of minuscule detail that the average wine drinker could overlook, like the “for office use only” section of a routine form, but the Webers even embrace even this small detail. In fact, the tiny AP numbers are one of the loudest details about the Falkenstein wines, and how to navigate what’s in the bottle. Many of the Falkenstein’s bottlings embellish the AP number with a name significant to the history of that vineyard parcel, or fuder. Year after year, the same name corresponds to the same lot, same parcel, a continuity of person and place, and a chance for a rare taste of continuity that is Hofgut Falkenstein.
This attention to the finest details shows up in the finished wines. Each is precise, energetic, and distinctly expressive. The wines feel light and agile, but deliver significant length and persistence. They play well with food, and perhaps best of all, they feel good to drink.
We have thirteen unique Rieslings to offer from Falkenstein’s 2025 vintage.
We’re pleased to offer this first drop with a 5% discount for orders of 6 – 11 bottles and with a 10% discount of orders of 12 or more.
Here’s a list of the new Falkenstein Rieslings we have in stock.
- AP7 Krettnacher Spatlese Trocken
- AP21 Krettnacher Auf Dem Holzchen Kabinett Trocken
- AP5 Krettnacher Euchariusberg Auslese (Forster)
- AP8 Krettnacher Euchariusberg Alte Reben Kabinett (Gisela)
- AP12 Krettnacher Euchariusberg Kabinett (Kugel Peter)
- AP6 Krettnacher Euchariusberg Spatlese (Klaus Lang)
- AP18 Krettnacher Ober Schafershaus Spatlese Trocken (Lorenz Manni)
- AP4 Niedermenniger Herrenberg Kabinett Feinherb (Onkel Peter)
- AP1 Niedermenniger Herrenberg Kabinett Trocken (Mutter Anna)
- AP11 Niedermenniger Herrenberg Spatlese Feinherb (Meyer Nepal)
- AP9 Niedermenniger Sonnenberg Kabinett Trocken (Munny)
- AP17 Ockfener Bockstein Kabinett
- AP22 Ockfener Bockstein Alte Reben Kabinett (Mia)
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5% discount for orders of 6 – 11 bottles
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10% discount of orders of 12 or more
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Discount ends Friday, August 7th at 9 am Pacific