Schloss Lieser Mosel Riesling Trocken Schiefer 2023 Consignment and a rotating cast of

and a rotating cast of seasonal Japanese citrus — yuzu

and a slight salinity on the finish

a memory of freshly cut hay

Santenay is red-wine country in most people's heads

The spent material is fermented into a quince tea kombucha

Schloss Lieser Mosel Riesling Trocken Schiefer 2023 Consignment and a rotating cast ofSchiefer just means slate the dark rock that soaks up sun all day and hands it back to the vines at night, and the reason the Mosel tastes like nowhere else. This is Schloss Lieser's dry Riesling, picked mainly in the Kestener Paulinshofberg, where the slate lies deeper and lighter, then fermented in stainless steel so nothing gets in the way. Thomas and Ute Haag brought this estate back from near ruin starting in 1992, and even their everyday dry