Gunther Steinmetz, Riesling (Trocken) Piesporter Goldtropfchen (green cap), 2021

The Piesporter Goldtropfchen is one of the Mosel's most storied vineyards, a sun-trap amphitheater of gray slate that has been prized for centuries. This is Stefan Steinmetz's dry, everyday expression of it, the green-cap bottling that sits below his top single-parcel selection but still carries the site's pedigree. 2021 was a classic cool Mosel vintage, and it shows in the wine's flinty tension and low, easygoing alcohol. Dry, precise, and built to age, this is a lot of famous-vineyard character without the ceremony.