Wein-Erbhof Stein Blauschiefer Blue Slate Trocken 2022

Dr. Uhlrich ‘Ulli’ Stein, and now his young protégé Philip Lardot, farms meaningful parcels of land that have a few important things in common: They are not easy to work. They are commercially unknown and therefore barely financially viable. Finally, and most importantly: Ulli has to love them. Stein is more than a winemaker – he is a passionate advocate for the traditional, steep, slate vineyards of the Mosel. 

One last note of importance, due to his belief in the importance of old vines the family never grafted to phylloxera resistant rootstock in the 70s when this practice was the norm. So Ulli now has a profound collection of ungrafted vines, farming around 10% of the ungrafted vines in all of Germany.