Gunther Steinmetz, Riesling GW Wintricher Geierslay, 2021 spirits-template Michel Couvreur’s "The Unique" is

Michel Couvreur’s "The Unique" is a masterful expression of blended whisky that balances depth with elegance

and deeply structured—offering a slightly more brooding counterpart to the more linear

yet with old-school California suaveness and swagger

gravity-based racking from barrel to barrel every six months

Gunther Steinmetz, Riesling GW Wintricher Geierslay, 2021 spirits-template Michel Couvreur’s "The Unique" isThe Wintricher Geierslay is a fierce south facing wall of purple slate and quartzite, tilted at a dizzying 55 degrees in a side valley off the Mosel. "GW" stands for Grosses Wintricher, Stefan Steinmetz's in house name for his top dry Riesling from the site, his own equivalent of a grand cru. This bottling comes from vines around sixty years old and went through malolactic fermentation, giving it a phenolic grip and savory depth on top of the site's