Philip Lardot, a Finnish-born talent who set his professional course as Ulli Stein’s assistant winemaker, has added a special wine to his lineup.

It's a cuvée that recognizes his mentor while – like his whole lineup so deliciously does – signaling the future of the Mosel’s most steeply terraced vineyards. The wine is called ‘Die Winzerin’ and it's old vine, ungrafted Riesling from Palmberg: a site that's synonymous with Ulli, bringing Philip's work full circle.

And, it's landed with a host of his single vineyard Rieslings and a collaboration wine that his importer, vom Boden, uses to mark a larger moment around the lower Mosel. We get into the full lineup below. 

We’ve featured Philip Lardot’s wines in our wine club before and highlighted his work in our broader Fresh from the Mosel newsletter. But if his wines are new to you, it’s worth knowing that Lardot isn’t interested in Prädikat levels – or even off-dry styles. Instead, he makes bone-dry Rieslings, fermented with native yeasts, raised in old wood, never blocking malolactic fermentation. (When seeing him in 2023, he mentioned a preference for the wines to go through malo.)

The results have reference with one foot in Germany, another in France: stony Riesling aromas you’d expect, but layered with the texture, lift, and oxidative nuance of high-acid Savagnin from Rousset-Martin or Chenin Blanc from Thomas Batardière.

That he’s achieving this while working some of the most difficult-to-farm vineyards in the lower Mosel only adds to how impressive the work is. Though these are almost all single vineyard wines, he legally can’t label them as such; so the cuvée names are playful indicators of where they come from. For a fuller profile, vom Boden of course has a nice write-up.

Philip and his life-and-wine partner Rosalie Curtin; steep Palmberg.

2023 Philip Lardot, 'Kontakt' Weiss 'Save The Mosel' $25
All at once a vehicle for awareness, a call to action, and a delicious wine. Based on vom Boden’s urgent focus on the Mosel’s existential moment (which you can read here). 50% Riesling, 35% Müller Thurgau, 15% Auxerrois co-fermented and raised in old wood.

2023 Philip Lardot, Pinot Gris 'Narre', Mosel $45
Single vineyard Pinot Gris fermented on its skins for two weeks ,then aged for 10 months in wood. Beautiful ramato color, with equally delicious stone fruit character.

2021 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'Der Hirt' Landwein Trocken, $50
Der Hirt means "the shepherd" and is named after the site it's sourced from: Herrenberg vineyard, or, “hill of the shepherd. You feel the power of the verticality of this vintage with delicious texture brought from resting on its gross lees.

2022 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'Der Bauer' Landwein Trocken $55
Meaning “the farmer,” this wine comes from St. Aldegunder Himmelreich with old vines raging from 70-to-100 years of age. With a cooling Eastern exposition, the high-wire fruit sees an impressive 22 months in wood.

2022 Philip Lardot, Riesling 'die Winzerin' Landwein Trocken $60
"Winzerin" is a female winegrower, and the label is a drawing of the late Erna Stein, Ulli Stein’s mother. The wine also sees two winters like ‘Der Bauer’, but its character is far different; the ungrafted, south facing vines have more breadth and phenolics. One for the long haul. 

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