2022 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Gackes Oben', Mosel, Germany Maison Harbour making it Japan’s highest whisky

making it Japan’s highest whisky distillery

fresh lawn clippings and significant minerality

20% Chardonnay on clay/limestone

Utterly delicious

steep southern slope with soils consisting of blackish grey slate and volcanic elements

2022 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thornicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett 'Gackes Oben', Mosel, Germany Maison Harbour making it Japan’s highest whiskyThe Gackes Oben is sourced from a prime, central parcel of the Ritsch, above the Gackes, which, you might imagine, is yet another word in the Mosel dialect for slate. The parcel is, literally, above a small wall of slate. These are the so called younger vines of 70 years old, mostly grafted and in the highest elevation of the vineyard at 220m where it is very windy, but also gets very direct sun. Welcome to the cooler part of the Ritsch. Gorgeous