Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 NET A field blend of Italian

A field blend of Italian white varietals

This Grand Cru Riesling from Hugel's finest Schoenenbourg vineyard plots—where unique soils of Keuper

or charcuterie

planted high on the bedrock ridge above

often ungrafted vines on the mountain's north slope

Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 NET A field blend of ItalianThe Hemel en Aarde Ridge sits highest, coolest and furthest inland of the valley's three wards, and its Pinot Noir ripens last of all. Hannes Storm's Ridge bottling comes off a cool, stony parcel of clay rich Bokkeveld shale, and it is the tightest wound of his three: where his granite sites give lift, the shale gives density, structure and a savory, brooding core. Time in bottle has done the 2019 a great favor, unwinding it into something layered and