2025 Peter Lauer 'Barrel X' Saar Riesling, Mosel, Germany Domaine Leroy The vineyard’s incredibly steep grade

The vineyard’s incredibly steep grade (nearly 50%) gives it a gorgeous exposition

unfiltered and with very little SO2 addition

VARIETAL: 51% Carignan | 25% Syrah | 12% Valdiguié | 5% Mourvèdre 3% Zinfandel | 2% Petite Sirah | 2% Grenache Noir

and a chalky mineral thread borne of Savennières’ famed hillside schist

and exotic perfume of Petit Manseng

2025 Peter Lauer 'Barrel X' Saar Riesling, Mosel, Germany Domaine Leroy The vineyard’s incredibly steep gradeBarrel X is winemaker Florian Lauers Platonic ideal of what a slightly off dry (feinherb) Saar Riesling should be. If we were in Burgundy, this would be the equivalent of a Bourgogne Blanc. As an appellation level wine, it is sourced from multiple vineyards in four different villages of the Saar: Ayl (Lauers home village), Saarburg, Wawern and Wiltingen. Florian says, From Ayl and Wawern, the wine gains the fruit and power, from Saarburg the racy