2023 Chardonnay Reserve Wagner Stempel Bio Vorverkauf built around a bright spine

built around a bright spine of acidity and a tight-knit core but with enough substance to cover its structural bones and offer great promise for medium-term cellaring

very ripe apples from old

Next to the Testamatta

Blueberries and black olives with violets and hints of sage

at a more basic level

2023 Chardonnay Reserve Wagner Stempel Bio Vorverkauf built around a bright spineSuckling 94, Still very youthful with a fascinating interplay of mirabelle fruit and leesy complexity with notes of fresh chestnuts. Very smoky palate with a wonderful interplay of restrained creaminess, fine tannins and a discrete but animating acidity. Very long finish. From the Oberen Horn site with porphyry volcanic soil, that some think deserves to be a GG site. Matured in used 600 liter oak casks. From organically grown grapes. Drinkable now,