Vollenweider, Riesling Schimbock, 2024 sancerre-template with a crushed rock minerality

with a crushed rock minerality and gingery spice

and don't feel obliged to decant for long

little new oak

plus a faintly herbal

Vollenweider, Riesling Schimbock, 2024 sancerre-template with a crushed rock mineralityA half hectare monopole planted entirely to own rooted vines more than a century old. The Trabener Schimbock sits directly beside the Wolfer Goldgrube and faces west, but the geology switches: red slate dominates here rather than the Goldgrube's grey, and the wine comes out broader, deeper and more expressive where the Goldgrube runs linear and precise. Framed by dry stone walls, the site rises out of the slope like a monument, and because the vines