Martin Tesch is tenth generation of his family making wine. Formerly in the VDP, the estate left that organization because, Martin explained to me on a visit in Langenlonsheim some years ago, his program for marketing his wines did not fit well. Nevertheless, the single vineyard wines here are the equivalent of top Grosses Gewächs wines; the Nahe chapter of the VDP, which does not feature any other ownership in this corner of region, is the poorer for the estate’s absence.
As Martin Tesch expects that his customers drink the basic Unplugged first and leave the individual vineyard sites to age for a few years, there is a touch more residual sugar in the individual vineyard site wines than in the Unplugged, and the wines will become even drier with a few years' time.
2019 or 2020 (which will be reviewed in my following post)? It’s largely a question of style, but both are excellent vintages here. (Continue reading here.)