Sourced from various vineyards in the Mosel region
incl. the Piesporter Freudenburg single vineyard.
Soil Type: Slate, quartz, and loam
Fermentation & Élevage: 20+ days of skin contact prior to fermentation and aging in used Mosel Fuder for one year on lees, minimal added so2
The estate is a joint venture connecting two families: the Kettern family, who have been making wine in the Mosel for several hundred years, and the Niepoort family, led by famed Portuguese winemaker, Dirk Niepoort.
The wines from Fio are certainly very different from much of what is made and currently imported from Germany, but they are also astonishingly delicious. These are “Natural” wines in the sense that they tick all the boxes (practicing organic viticulture, no SO2 during winemaking, minimal SO2 at bottling) with inventive, Daliesque labels.
aromatic, apricot, florals, orange peel, spice, fun and complex, dry but with plenty of juicy stone/tropical fruit, mouthwatering acidity, textural, otherwordly, Intense and concentrated, medium-bodied
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