Hard to believe that this was bottled after 28 months maturation on the full lees, because it is so vivid, with a ton of dried herbs, plus caramelized peach and pear. Enormously deep and structured, but with a certain lightness of touch at the enormously long and enormously slatey finish. This gives you a very good idea how the great dry Mosel wines from before the First World War tasted. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification. Drink or hold.

The 2018 Marienburg Fahrlay Reserve is enormously intense and concentrated on the nose, offering super ripe fruit intertwined with spicy slate aromas. Rich and baroque on the palate yet crystalline, saline and refined, this is a dense, powerful, finely tannic and still slightly bitter-finishing Reserve that needs another couple of years or even a decade to reveal its true elegance, finesse and terroir character. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2022. - Stephan Reinhardt