Mosel Profile: Thorsten Melsheimer, Reil
Natural riesling from the steep, biodynamically-farmed near-monopole Mullay-Hofberg.
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 …