Domaine Trapet Pere et Fils, Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru, 2023 SO031024 with crisp acidity and a

with crisp acidity and a dry

Wine made by nuns—and it's delicious

partly in neutral oak from top Burgundy and Champagne growers (Egly-Ouriet among them)

challenging vintage with variable results—quality depended on individual winemaking decisions

Domaine Trapet Pere et Fils, Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru, 2023 SO031024 with crisp acidity and aPicture steep granite terraces climbing toward a medieval castle above Kaysersberg, farmed biodynamically by a family better known for Gevrey Chambertin. That's Schlossberg, one of Alsace's most dramatic Grand Crus, and Trapet's Riesling here is all tension and stone. The soils are granite (weathered biotite granite and gneiss granite migmatite of Kaysersberg), with no schist, which push the wine toward a cool, saline, crushed rock intensity rather