Konstantin Weiser and Alexandra Künstler have been lovingly farming vineyards in Traben-Trarbach, Enkirch and Wolf since the 2005 vintage, gently ushering the wine into being in their quaint cellars. The estate is now up to almost 4 hectares and Konstantin and Alexandra do absolutely everything themselves. The vineyards are farmed organically (not at all easy in these environs), fermentation is carried out in old fuder as well as stainless steel tank with exclusively indigenous yeasts and both chaptalization and the use of sussreserve are systematically avoided.

The proprietors themselves are some of the kindest and most passionate people that you could hope to meet and their affection and dedication are communicated through the wine. A typical Weiser-Künstler Riesling has boundless energy and levity and is simultaneously light and excruciatingly flavourful. Their off-dry wines are always perky and slatey and their dry wines are laserbeams of rocks and fruit. Like any great producer, their wines are impeccably balanced but a Weiser-Künstler Riesling seems to achieve this balance with less weight and density than their colleagues – their red-fruit-laced, stony masterpieces are sole-affirming and life-enriching gifts to the world. If you see them on our shelf, buy them.

What little quantities we get sell quickly, partly because we ourselves drink them with a particularly rabid thirst.

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