Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Author DK Scott Schultz cut his teeth

Scott Schultz cut his teeth alongside Pax Mahle at Wind Gap and that cool-climate Syrah pedigree shows up loud in this bottling

layered with cedar

because it means he can choose

built around strawberry

Merkelbach Mosel Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett 2023 Author DK Scott Schultz cut his teethSome things never change, and that is the whole point here. For decades the brothers Alfred and Rolf Merkelbach made Riesling in a cellar barely bigger than a garage in Urzig, working their steep slate parcels by hand and bottling wines that felt like they'd arrived from another era. When they finally retired, the estate passed to the Selbach family just down the river, who kept the same cellar, the same old casks and the same stubbornly hands off