Mosel Profile: Thorsten Melsheimer, Reil

Natural riesling from the steep, biodynamically-farmed near-monopole Mullay-Hofberg.

Thorsen Melsheimer. Photo: Jade Ambre.

Reil vigneron Thorsten Melsheimer began experimenting with natural vinification in 2011, almost simultaneously with his friend Rudolf Trossen, who he’d soon follow into biodynamic certification in 2013. A generation younger than Trossen, but a generation older than the young guns of the region, Melsheimer runs the …