Jonas Dostert, Pure Dolomite, 2024 mosel-favorite Barbancourt’s 8 Year is a

Barbancourt’s 8 Year is a benchmark bottle

classically made Bordeaux that doesn't ask you to spend a fortune

This is Nebbiolo at its most structured: wild rose and cedar aromas open into a palate of succulent red cherry

more mineral foil to perfumed Alpine: a high

or just a sunny afternoon

Jonas Dostert, Pure Dolomite, 2024 mosel-favorite Barbancourt’s 8 Year is aMost wines are named for a place, a family, or a saint. This one is named for a rock. Dolomite is the hard carbonate mineral running through the Obermosel the upriver stretch of the Mosel where shell limestone replaces the slate that made the region famous and the name is doing exactly the work you'd expect. Jonas Dostert is one of the young growers rewriting what German wine is allowed to be, farming this chalky ground with a low intervention hand