"Eins-Zwei-Dry"

The title of this post is the name of Leitz's new QBA. The first Leitz QBA to cause an uproar in the marketplace was the "Dragonstone" and it was very good in 2002 but in subsequent years I felt it got too sweet and I lost my taste for it. Now enter the 2007 Josef Leitz "Eins-Zwei-Dry" which is the like the dry Dragonstone and 2007 is the first vintage. What a lovely wine. Crackling with minerality, some lime zest and pure sea and seashell aromas on the nose this is a great intro into dry German Rieslings and all the pleasures it can entail. There is a snappy label and it is in a screwcap. This seems like it won't make old bones and is an ideal candidate for a summer sipper. The Dragonstone, despite getting sweeter in recent years (probably due to hotter vintages), I think it will prove to be a better ager than the "Eins-Zwei-Dry." With all that said this is crisp, cracklin' and almost has a Muscadet-like minerality that borders on saline. Also the price is right. To pimp my own wares for a second . . .only $14.99 a bottle at CSW. A steal for wine of this quality and it actually is mostly sourced from an Erstes Gewachs site called Geisenheimer Rothenberg. Wegeler is who I think of it when I think of this vineyard but now Leitz, with this great value will enter my thoughts when I think of Geisenheimer Rothenberg. Granted, Wegeler makes some breathtaking wines from that site, but now Leitz makes a nice little wine from that site. A welcome addition.

Here is a pic but it was snapped with my Blackberry so sorry for the shitty quality.