Stein "vom Berg" Mosel Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Importer's Notes

(1/2025) In a response to the longstanding Mosel ban on growing red grapes, Ulli planted some Pinot Noir in the 80’s to test the limits of the law. The case was eventually taken through the bureaucracy and Ulli’s fight lead to the repeal of the fifty year ban in 1987. So what does one do with renewed freedom in long standing family land? Perhaps twist the knife just a little bit more by insisting that other red grapes be allowed as well as Pinot Noir. And of course, not just insisting for permission but planting Cabernet Sauvignon (of all things!) in his grand cru of Palmberg (of all places!)—an impossibly steep slope in the village of St. Aldegund where Ulli’s holding near a monopole. In the decades since what was once a bit of a private joke to irk overbearing bureaucrats has turned into a striking wine and a firm notice that the wine world is not the same as it was. Climate change is here and this region that once could barely ripen these grapes is now putting out a wine of substance to rival the great mountain Cabernets of old school California.