2024 Purist Mosel Riesling Kabinett Trocken, Axel Pauly

• Style: Bone-dry Mosel Riesling, pale and luminous
• Taste: Green apple, fresh hay, stony minerality, razor-sharp acidity
• Food: Shellfish, white fish, Asian cuisine, spicy dishes
• Occasion: Weeknight, summer drinking, aperitivo
• Serve: Chilled now, 11% ABV

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Axel Pauly's 2024 Purist arrives pale and luminous, leading with green apple and fresh hay. The palate is razor-sharp—driven by crisp acidity and a fine stony grip that anchors every sip. At 11% ABV and bone-dry (1.8g/L residual sugar), this is Riesling at its most transparent and mineral-focused, showing exactly what the vineyard is saying without artifice or manipulation.

The Winery — Axel Pauly

One of Germany's rising stars, Axel Pauly took over the family estate after working vintages in California, New Zealand, and elsewhere in Germany. His nine hectares sit in the heart of the Mosel Valley around Lieser, with vines over fifty years old rooted in the region's famous blue-slate soils. The 2024 vintage proved punishing—April frosts and persistent rain delivered the smallest harvest in fifty years—but his grapes from the steeply terraced Lieserer Schlossberg thrived. Pauly's winemaking is equally restrained: fourteen hours of skin contact before fermentation, indigenous yeasts, four months in stainless steel at cool temperature. He closes all bottles with screwcap to preserve the purity and freshness his Riesling demands.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

Drink this with Asian food, seafood, spicy dishes, or roasted chicken—anywhere you need brightness and acidity to cut through richness. Its transparency makes it equally at home as an aperitivo or alongside a light summer lunch. This dry Kabinett sits comfortably within our broader Germany selection as one of the finest expressions of the variety's ability to transmit terroir. If you've found other Mosel selections compelling, this belongs alongside them. Vegetarian and vegan-friendly.