2021 Kientzler Riesling les Failles

Description

This regularly outstanding bottling is their villages level bottling that was formerly called “Ribeauvillé”, but they were forced to change it due to labelling law vagaries.  A faille is a fault line, the name that the Kientzler’s chose to underscore the geological diversity of Ribeauvillé, a patchwork of fault lines and differing soils.  The label beautifully illustrates the geological map of the town with different colors for the different parcels around the village.  This blended bottling from several sites creates a whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-the-parts complexity that is plain oustanding in its sense of substance.  The freshly released, crazy low yielding 2021 vintage example should be even more turbocharged than usual.  As an exemplar of the dry Riesling nobility of Ribeauvillé and wildly overachieving dry Riesling in general, this one should be a 6pk/case buy no brainer……!