Hofgut Falkenstein Saar Valley

Last month I visited Weingut Hofgut Falkenstein in the Saar Valley and I had an amazing time, I tasted cask samples and wines from bottles close to the vineyard with one of the sons of Eric "Johannes", a really great gentleman we visited some vineyards and went to the cellar to experience the cask sample of 2018.

The great Johannes

Erich Weber in the Saar valley farms about 8 hectares of old vines—over 40 percent ungrafted. They work some of the finest, around the village of Niedermennig. A diverse range of soils including gray, blue, and red slate, quartz, and green basalt. The average age of the Webers' vines is between 40 and 50 years old, the oldest is from 60 to 90 years old, over 1 ha is ungrafted.
The vineyards, are on various slate slopes:
Falkensteiner Hofberg, Niedermenniger Herrenberg, Niedermenniger Sonnenberg, Krettnacher Euchariusberg, Krettnacher Altenberg, and Oberemmeler Karlsberg.
Looking at the slope near the house 

The cellar work is very traditional: they do not chaptalize, the musts go through spontaneous fermentation and natural sedimentation, and the resulting wines are aged in used Fuder (1,000L barrels). They only lightly sulfur the casks, before putting the grape musts into them. In addition, the various parcels are vinified separately in old oak Fuder.

They like to bottle each Fuder separately.
Taste of the Pinot Noir a truly fresh clean mineral red wine. 
Because they neither chaptalize and not make an entry-level Estate Riesling, various single-casks of Kabinett trocken are the starting point at Falkenstein.
The beautiful alive vineyards of Hofgut Falkenstein 
The Wines are light, tangy, mineral and dry they tasting a pure Saar Rieslings, some wines got more noticeable residual sugar but the acidity is truly high with a high amount of energy, thus the sugar level is pleasant and retains a lively natural effervescence present from fermentation and minimal handling make the wines a traditional Mosel Wines.

Their wines are lucid, crisp terroir-driven of the Saar region, mineral, fresh, complex with high acidity and they are both horizontal and vertical. 
A must in the Saar ...

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