Philip Lardot Kontakt White Save the Mosel 2023

A call to action - the inflection point of the Mosel and these old, historic traditional terraces, which are on the precipice of becoming extinct without our direct support of small growers. Even in good times, the labor of the Mosel is extreme; the prices demanded by the market simply unreasonable. We are at a crossroads, with two futures in view. In the dystopian future, we ask the growers to subsidize this culture, these wines, through their own poverty, selling wines for ten dollars that cost them twelve to produce. This is unsustainable; eventually, they will stop. The other possibility is that we support them, that we scream from the rooftops about this sacred place, our common collective history, and we preserve it, by paying more. There can be no other way. What should we value more than human labor? This wine is 50% Riesling, 35% Müller Thurgau, 15% Auxerrois

The easy part is to like this wine, it feels almost Burgundian, crisp, lemon curd, prickled with acidity and a little volume/texture from old barriques/tonneau.