Schlossböckelheimer, Riesling, Troken, 2024

The first of three exceptional, even unique Ortswein (village wines) in the 2024 collection, the Schlossböckelheimer is becoming an important and symbolic wine for the estate. It offers great intensity of tight golden fruits, and a crystalline structure in the wine. In 2024 it has a nervy, sharp acidity underpinned by a clear volcanic, smoky profile, with lots of minerals. The village Schlossböckelheimer typically contains early pickings of the Grand Cru Felsenberg anyway, but this year it includes the full production of what would have been the GG bottling, which in the end was too small to release. For that reason, it tastes rather more like a GG than your average village wine.