Rough background to some very smooth Saar wines
Saturday 17 December 2005
These are my (obviously) unedited notes taken while listening to Egon Müller presenting the wines described in tasting notes at the tasting event described in wine news.
The vineyard
28ha total the Scharzhofberg vyd. EM has 8.5 ha of Scharzhofbg. There are 8 owners left in total. There were still 12 when EM IV started, in ‘91 officially. His pa started in ’45. Pa was able to buy abt 2 ha. EM bought 1 ha in ‘97, by buying a whole estate (von Kesselstatt’s holdings?) of more than 3 ha. You cd argue that their ‘97 crop paid for...
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