Barmes-Buecher Riesling Hengst 2021

Domaine Barmès-Buecher is a family affair from southern Alsace, striving to create the most expressive and powerful wines that Mother Nature will allow. The domaine is completely biodynamic, an ancient and organic way of farming using no chemicals. It’s a very intense way to farm, but it’s absolutely worth it.

Maxime, who learned everything he knows from his late, amazing winemaking father François, has been praised by Parker’s Wine Advocate as an extremely promising young talent, writing of
“his great passion and intellectual reflection—the idea of a harmonic and sane growth of the vines through biodynamic farming and a true and balanced reflection of the complex french terroir idea (which considers the soil, the vine and the vintage as an entity) in the wines.”

Parker’s Wine Advocate would also call Barmes “the purest and most authentic expression of terroir, vintage, and grape variety,” which, especially coming from the most respected wine publication in the world, is about as emphatic an endorsement as I’ve seen. Well deserved.