2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure Lemon peel and bay leaf

Lemon peel and bay leaf round out the blend that’s sweetened with organic cane sugar

with notes of poached pears on an impressively concentrated palate

Arriving mid-april

and during elevage

Old vines (50 years)

2023 La Rogerie Riesling 'Schneid' Turckheim, Alsace, France Caleb Leisure Lemon peel and bay leafFrom a 0. 25 hectare plot on the almost north facing Brand hill, the 2023 Turckheim Riesling Schneid is replacing the Village RieslingI reviewed the 2021 vintage of that wine earlier in 2024. It opens with ripe, intense and concentrated fruit on the nose and is a mouth filling, dense, elegant and juicy dry Riesling with power, length and intensity. Racked straight from the press into barrels, the wine was kept on the full lees until July and was