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 wo...