2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure arrives late July

arrives late July

2-hectare monopole spans the entire slope above Premeaux-Prissey—Ladoix limestone at the foot

Aged 10 months on the lees in amphora and 500L barrels

with notes of poached pears on an impressively concentrated palate

2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure arrives late JulyFrom a 0. 25 hectare plot on the almost north facing Brand hill, the 2023 Turckheim Riesling Schneid is replacing the Village RieslingI reviewed the 2021 vintage of that wine earlier in 2024. It opens with ripe, intense and concentrated fruit on the nose and is a mouth filling, dense, elegant and juicy dry Riesling with power, length and intensity. Racked straight from the press into barrels, the wine was kept on the full lees until July and was