Jonas Dostert, Elbling Alte Reben, 2024 outofstock-34475900985 it's an easy way to

it's an easy way to get a taste of Sauternes pedigree in a bone-dry package

complex spirit

Ginestra Casa Maté is the estate's south-facing block inside the celebrated Ginestra cru

and Laurent Ponsot farms a full hectare of it

and faint menthol character layer over a core of perfectly ripe Black Doris plum

Jonas Dostert, Elbling Alte Reben, 2024 outofstock-34475900985 it's an easy way toElbling is one of the oldest grapes still in the ground in Europe the Romans likely carried it up the Moselle and for most of the last century it was treated as bulk fodder for cheap sparkling wine. Jonas Dostert is one of a small handful of growers making the case that this was never the grape's fault. These are old vines (Alte Reben) on the Obermosel's shell limestone soils, upriver from the slate country everyone photographs, farmed and vinified