Keller, von der Fels vertical
Monday, 24 May 2021

For an estate Riesling, Klaus Peter Keller's von der Fels ('from the rock') proves awfully fine in a tasting spanning 2004 to 2020.
In 1902 the winegrower Friedrich Keller had to obtain a master’s qualification as a dynamite blaster in order to be allowed to clear some limestone rock on the site of the Hubacker vineyard for the building of the family home in Dalsheim. What he could not know at the time was that it would be this particularly rocky part of the Hubacker vineyard which would inspire the name of the family's estate Riesling 100 years later.
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