in the gentle Moscato d'Asti style
Wine made by nuns—and it's delicious
first bottled for sale in the early 1980s
earthy undertone—but also generosity: ripe cherry
partly in neutral oak from top Burgundy and Champagne growers (Egly-Ouriet among them)
Domaine Trapet Pere et Fils, Riesling Schlossberg Grand Cru, 2023 SO031024 in the gentle Moscato d'AstiPicture steep granite terraces climbing toward a medieval castle above Kaysersberg, farmed biodynamically by a family better known for Gevrey Chambertin. That's Schlossberg, one of Alsace's most dramatic Grand Crus, and Trapet's Riesling here is all tension and stone. The soils are granite (weathered biotite granite and gneiss granite migmatite of Kaysersberg), with no schist, which push the wine toward a cool, saline, crushed rock intensity rather