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2001 J.B. Becker Wallufer Walkenberg Riesling Spätlese trocken

Tired of fashionable wine labels in block letters that consist of only one word? Then buy German wines like this. Only by looking at it wonderful Old World Feelings will appear. Hans Josef Becker was named as the “Lordsiegelbewahrer des klassischen Rheingau-Rieslings” in Germany’s most popular wine guide „Gault Millau“. I would roughly translate this expression as “keeper of the lord seal” (does this exist?) but whatever it should mean, it makes one thing clear: Hajo Becker uses methods of vinification that date long before the industrial revolution of winemaking. Two of these principles are spontaneous fermentation and maturation in big wooden “Fuderfässern” (= used vats) which used to be standard even for dry Riesling back then. Weiterlesen →