Weingut Hermann Ludes - Mosel Riesling Hermann 2023

The “Hermann” – named after both the founder as well as his first-born son, the current proprietor along with his nephew Julian – is the “basic” wine.

In most vintages the wines is fermented to just off-dry (in 2023 off dry with 11 RS) and flaunts a precocious balance, a magical, just barely perceptible off-dry-ness that reminds me of the Weiser-Künstler Feinherb, yet the Ludes is not quite as cut or lifted. This is a curvier, also lighter and more ephemeral-feeling wine – as if you don’t really even have to drink it, as if it will just saturate and then evaporate, leaving a pleasing sorta wine-tingle.

The wine smells of the perfume of fermentation, pears, quince, spice, flowers and rocks with a rustic spritzy energy. Just essential deliciousness.

Dry/Off-dry

Type: White
Producer: Weingut Hermann Ludes
Varietal: Riesling
Country: Germany
Region: Mosel
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