Fio Wines - 'Glou Glou', Skin Contact, Mosel, Germany (2023)

TASTING NOTES

Lovely floral blossoms, orange and tangerine zest. Palate is lively and fresh with mouth-watering acidity and a clean and crisp finish. Pithy, but very elegant. 

The name Fio means ‘thread’ in Portuguese. The estate is a joint venture connecting two families: the Kettern family, who have been making wine in the Mosel for several hundred years, and the Niepoort family, led by famed Portuguese winemaker, Dirk Niepoort. Dirk had learned some winemaking from the late Wilhelm Haag in the Mosel and so had been searching for a project in the Mosel with his sons when they met Philipp Kettern of Lothar Kettern in Piesport.

The wines are all grown on steep slopes in the villages of Piesport and Leiwen. Biodynamic practices, natural fermentations in very old Mosel fuder barrels and without sulphites (which is only used at bottling and in low levels).