Peter Lauer - Riesling Fass 25 "Ayler" Trocken 2024 (750ml)
Price: $34.99
| Producer | Peter Lauer |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Mosel-Saar-Ruwer |
| Varietal | Riesling |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Sku | 205600 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Peter Lauer Description
Florian’s general style is exactly the opposite of his famous Saar neighbor Egon Müller. At Lauer, the focus is on dry-tasting Rieslings as opposed to the residual sugar wines of the latter. For this style, there are really only two addresses in the Saar (though more come online every year, trying to chase the style): Lauer and Hofgut Falkenstein.
Employing natural-yeast fermentations, Lauer’s wines find their own balance. They tend to be more textural, deeper and more broad-shouldered. They have a preternatural sense of balance, an energy that is singular. Yet the hallmarks of the Saar are there: purity, precision, rigor, mineral.
Florian’s playground is the breathtaking hillside of the Kupp, pictured at the top of the page, with a map of the area directly above. Though the many vineyards of this mountain were unified (obliterated?) under the single name “Kupp” with the 1971 German wine law, it has been Florian’s life’s work to keep the old vineyard names alive, to keep these voices alive. He has been fighting this fight since his first vintage in 2005 and only with an update to the law in 2014 can he now legally use the older vineyard names such as Unterstenberg, Stir, Kern and Neuenberg.
Florian fought the law, and he won.
In addition to the expanses of the Kupp, Lauer farms three other important sites, Feils, directly across the river, and the precipitous, cliff-vineyard Schonfels, a bit upstream from the other two sites and, finally, the once-famous Lambertskirch, just a stone’s throw from Schonfels. This was a site with a huge reputation in the 19th and mid-20th century, yet it was abandoned. Lauer cleared the site and replanted it himself.
No. 25 is Lauer’s highest-level dry village Riesling sourced from two sites (Scheidterberg and Rauberg) that circle around the backside of the village. Historically a bit chilly, these sites are now coming into a glorious place – the jaw-dropping quality of “Barrel X” is a testament to these sites. Wildly floral and minty, with great delineation – just a perfect dry Saar Riesling and deceptively complex.
Ayler has been a regular guest on wine lists in German restaurants since the 1920s and was described in a charming way with the attributes: “natural, flowery, spicy, demanding”. This description has not lost any of its validity over 100 years.
Tasting Note: "The N°25 Ayl, as it is referred to on the front label (the reference to the vintage is left for the back label), is a bone-dry wine (with less than 1 g/l of residual sugar) made from fruit harvested on the Scheidterberg and Rauberg side hills. It offers a refined and elegant nose of white flowers, aniseed, green tea, citrus, almond, blueberry, and candied grapefruit. The wine is pure and light on the herbal and minty palate. The sensation of zest is on the rounder side and brings a good smoothness. This is an elegant and delicate expression of dry Riesling." - Mosel Fine Wines (No 76 July 2025)
Vinous: 90 Points
The 2024 Riesling trocken No. 25 was picked in the southeast-facing sites of Scheidterberg and Rauberg. Lemon balm and lemon come with a lovely overtone of cumin on the nose. The palate almost has an earthy vibe, a stony backdrop and a beautiful phenolic concentration reminiscent of apples and hops. This is bone-dry and light, yet it still has exquisite fill and substance.
(Bone-dry)
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