2010 Alsace

Mirroring the dark granitic rocks peering down on the village on Kayserberg, the Faller family's famous vineyard Schlossberg is underpinned by granite soils, bringing a real sense of stature and poise to the wine. Naturally more concentrated than previous years due to the loss of up to 40% of fruit at flowering, this is the Faller's flagship Riesling, topped only by 'L'Inedit'. It speaks of a family whose whole being is bound up with the symbiosis between the granite rocks and Riesling. Given the small but high quality fruit, this is a dry wine that would benefit from a decade's ageing in a dark cellar, so drinking at its best from 2018/20 till 2030 say.
(David Berry Green, Berrys' Alsace Buyer)

60 yo vines, mauve granite soils, steep south facing slope and 33 grams RS makes for a potent brew! Brand is a prodigious Grand Cru vineyard whose heat and humidity triggers noble rot easily, as per in 2010 when this wine effectively became a Vendange Tardive. Medium sweet, this is immaculately turned out with bristling acidity to balance out the sugar and noble rot, but it tastes drier than you expect looking at the figures; the sign of a great vineyard. Drinking till 2035 at least.
(David Berry Green, Berrys' Alsace Buyer)