Ninety percent of the fruit for the Tonschiefer bottling hails from the Leistenberg vineyard. This too is going to go under the screw. The bouquet on the 2013 Tonschiefer is very expressive out of the blocks, offering up scents of cherry blossoms, apple, pear, a lovely base of slate and a gentle topnote of petrol. On the palate the wine is medium-full, crisp and very snappy this year, with again, a lovely base of minerality, great focus and cut and a very long, youthful and snappy finish. This will need a year to blossom, but should be a superb vintage for this bottling. Or, at least it could be under natural cork! 2015-2025+. 88 points