It Doesn't Fit, The Deal is Legit Their Loss is Our Gain. Spatlese Deal of the Year!

Some days, you just luck into things.  Me, I attribute it to good, clean living.

So here's the story.

Caspari Kappel, one of our original 6 German producers and our founding Mosel producer, made a great wine in 2012.  Because it is not measurably dry, like their other wines (and what they are known for in Germany) they could not sell it for love or money.  It was like trying to sell Jamon Iberico at the gift store in an Orthodox synagogue.  This wine only has 10-12 grams of residual sugar. Sugar, when at that low a level, acts as a textural enhancer rather than making a wine taste sweet. But the Germans didn't care and so Caspari offered it to me at a ridiculous discount and I'm passing on my good fortune.

So I have an incredible deal on the 2012 Caspari Kappel Monteneubel Spatlese Feinherb for $19.99 a bottle which is unheard of for a wine of this quality.  It should cost $35-$40.  Deep, focused minerality and lovely linear quality that is so special amongst wines of the Mosel. This is a fantastic wine with infinitely complex aromas that has a leesy quality along with terrific pure slate and just so airy. That's a word (airy) I use to describe a particular type of minerality that I find in the Mosel.  The Monteneubel has it in spades.

It's an interesting vineyard as the only other wine I know from it is the whole cluster Pinot Noir Gernot Kollmann of Immich makes which is fabulous. The character is one of filigreed minerals and on a nimble yet present structure. There is no noticeable sugar in this wine (unless you are a chemist with adequate equipment) and I would call it dry-tasting which is what a classic Feinherb should be. Drinking exceptionally well at the moment and will continue to drink well and improve for 15 years.

2012 Caspari Monteneubel Riesling Spatlese Feinherb - $19.99 NET