{"title":"Dostert arrival","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"jonas-dostert-elbling-karambolage-mosel-germany","title":"Jonas Dostert Elbling “Karambolage”, Mosel, Germany","description":"\u003cheader class=\"product-header prel\"\u003e\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m told the French word “Karambolage” means “collision” in English; Google translate confirms this to be the case. This is Dostert’s calling card wine and for him one of the most important wines he makes. For 2022 it is roughly a third Elbling, a third Chardonnay and a third Pinot Gris. Because of the extreme dryness of the vintage, Dostert did more skin contact than normal, hoping to pull from the skins more nutrients to help the fermentation. In the end, this is one of the more structured and “funky” Karambolages he has made. With ten days of maceration, the wine is structured and chewy and bracing. Because he wanted to make sure this wine had density, the vines that normally produce the Elbling “Alte Reben” are in this wine; there is no Elbling “Alte Reben” in 2022, which almost makes me want to cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine is a beautiful color, resembling freshly squeezed peach juice in its pink, fleshy tones delicately washed with salmon. As with all of Dostert’s wines, it is curt and clean, faceted and delicate, yet with a lot of flavor: stony fresh, bright tones of lemon pith, green apple, citrus oils, mineral water, just barely ripe strawberries, even vague hints of cranberry and other red fruits, very perfumed and tart and aromatic. All the notes are dilute and gauzy, yet lingering and present, floating and persistent. This is a beautiful and complex wine that flirts with being raw and Chablis-like, structured and textural like a miniature orange-wine, and red-fruited like a rosé, though it is also not at all like any of those. I love this\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the importer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582564589933,"sku":"22452","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/2022JonasDostertElbling_Karambolage_Mosel_Germany.jpg?v=1722022371"},{"product_id":"jonas-dostert-rochus-21-cremant-mosel-germany-2021-22","title":"Jonas Dostert, \"Rochus #21\/2\"  Cremant, Mosel, Germany (2021)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the first time, there is a sparkling wine from 2021, made from 50% Chardonnay and 50%  Elbling. The 2021 vintage with its cool weather was ideal for sparkling. After 25 months on the lees,  the crémant was disgorged as brut nature. Last year, I had already announced that I wanted to  delve a little deeper into the topic of sparkling wine. Sparkling wine is still a ubiquitous trend, but I  feel more committed to the tradition of my father, who has been producing very good sparkling  wines since the mid-1980s. Sparkling wines with a low dosage have been my favourites right from  the start. At the moment, the filling and disgorging of the sparkling wines is done externally, which  involves a considerable amount of extra work due to the transport (2 hours travelling time). In the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enext few years, I would like to become independent of this and set up a small, independent  sparkling wine production business in order to further develop the topic. - Jonas Dostert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the second disgorgement of the Rochus #21, hence the #21\/2.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582564917613,"sku":"22453","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/NVJonasDostert__Rochus_21_Cremant_Mosel_Germany_2021.jpg?v=1745267572"},{"product_id":"jonas-dostert-rochus-23-1-cremant-mosel-germany-2023","title":"Jonas Dostert, \"Rochus #23\/1\"  Cremant, Mosel, Germany (2023)","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e23\/1 ie 2023s first disgorgement as Jonas is now letting longer lees aging happen with small lots and releasing later disgorgements. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBy now you know the code - this is the first disgorgement of the 2023 vintage. Yet there are other changes here. As Jonas says, \"This Crémant represents the logical future development of the Rochus Crémant concept. From now on, this wine will consist of one third each of Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and Elbling, sourced from three different plots within the Rochusfels site near the Rochus Chapel.\" The point here is both the new trilogy of grapes, expanded to include Pinot Gris, but also the focus on the plots that surround the Rochus chapel. These are his highest-altitude plots, among his coolest vineyards, and he wants, more than anything, to focus more and more sharply on the various plots and to do less and less blending.- vB\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582568423789,"sku":"22454","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/NVJonasDostert__Rochus_21_Cremant_Mosel_Germany_2021.jpg?v=1745267572"},{"product_id":"2024-jonas-dostert-elbling-alte-reben-mosel-germany","title":"2024 Jonas Dostert Elbling Alte Reben, Mosel, Germany","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-1302ab7e-7fff-1275-31c5-bd2b998085be\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a year away, I'm back with an Elbling from my old vines. Elbling is always one of those things...  The image I have of the grape variety is constantly changing. The grape continues to give me many  opportunities to experiment. Possibly even more freedom than my other grape varieties do, as I  usually have some kind of ideals floating around in my head. 2023 makes Elbling delicate and fine  again. It lives from its acid structure and a watery element that I hardly find in any other grape  variety. This is logical, as the grape variety produces very thick berries with thin skins and all the  more juice. As annoying as the care of the Elbling is throughout the year, the result in the bottle  makes up for it. - Jonas Dostert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582569242989,"sku":"22455","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/2023JonasDostertElblingAlteReben_Mosel_Germany.jpg?v=1745268211"},{"product_id":"2024-jonas-dostert-pure-dolomite-chardonnay-elbling-mosel-germany","title":"2024 Jonas Dostert 'Pure Dolomite' (Chardonnay\/Elbling), Mosel, Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-7494d7fc-7fff-272f-8d8c-7ca2796a0751\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis year's Pure Dolomite also consists of around 60% Chardonnay and 40% Elbling. Here too, the  Elbling brings this watery element to the wine. The Chardonnay adds some power and fullness. I  maintain that this is the only Chardonnay\/Elbling wine in the world. - Jonas Dostert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582569341293,"sku":"22456","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/2023JonasDostert_PureDolomite_Chardonnay_Elbling_Mosel_Germany.jpg?v=1745268544"},{"product_id":"2024-jonas-dostert-frost-chardonnay-mosel-germany","title":"2024 Jonas Dostert 'Frost' Chardonnay, Mosel, Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonas says the Chardonnay was hard to manage with the frosts. He writes: \"Chardonnay and frost. Year after year, Chardonnay is in more of a hurry than the other varieties. There's a full week between Chardonnay's bud break and that of my other varieties. Its susceptibility to frost is therefore already higher.\" There are two results. The first, obviously enough, is that there is very little to go around. The second, less obviously (though if you know Jonas it's less surprising), is that Jonas felt like he shouldn't call the wine Chardonnay. So, for this vintage only, he's calling it \"Frost,\" as a way to acknowledge the suffering, the extra work, the reality of the vintage. That said, the wine is lovely. I have written many times that\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eDostert\u003c\/span\u003e's wines, especially the gunflint Chardonnay, reminds me of what I think a great Chablis from the 1980s from Dauvissat might taste like. All the descriptors, the loving phrases likening Chablis to breaking open rocks and oyster shells, well here it is.  - vB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582569701741,"sku":"22457","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/2023JonasDostertChardonnay_Mosel_Germany.jpg?v=1745268644"},{"product_id":"2024-jonas-dostert-pinot-gris-mosel-germany","title":"2024 Jonas Dostert Pinot Gris, Mosel, Germany","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is only\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eDostert\u003c\/span\u003e's second directly pressed Pinot Gris since 2021. This is one of his higher plots and so it almost always is the last parcel harvested. This wine marks the end of the harvest. And while Pinot Gris can often have some plushness, an oily-herbal quality that gets lazy in many of the world's commercially successful Pinot Grigios, here we have Pinot Gris in its most sauve and finessed form. This is absolutely spectacular wine; a Pinot Gris with energy and lift. - vB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vom Bodem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53582569898349,"sku":"22458","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/5327\/0827\/files\/2021JonasDostertPinotGris_Mosel_Germany.jpg?v=1682704095"}],"url":"https:\/\/leonandsonwine.com\/collections\/dostert-arrival.oembed","provider":"Leon \u0026 Son Wine and Spirits","version":"1.0","type":"link"}