ROCHE LIQUIDE 2024

Name: ROCHE LIQUIDE 2024
Brand: Racines Rebelles
SKU: SW-LU-RARE-ROLI-24
Price: 29.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Luxembourg , Moselle Luxembourgeoise

Clear pale straw, almost water-white at the edges. Chalk dust, green apple, fresh lemon zest, a thread of wet stone. Taut. Mineral. Long.

Wine Type: White

Size: 750ml

Grapes: Elbling

Drinking Window: Drink now – 2028

Vintage: 2024

Alcohol: 9.5%

Food Pairings: Oysters · Ceviche · Goat cheese · Grilled white fish

Nutrients: Per 100ml: energy 291 kJ / 70 kcal · carbohydrates 0 g, of which sugars 0 g · contains small amounts of fat, saturated fat, protein and salt · contains sulphites.

€29

Roche Liquide means "liquid rock." The name is literal. Elbling is one of the oldest cultivated grape varieties in Europe — it has been growing along the Moselle since Roman times and survives almost nowhere else. Most producers who still grow it blend it away or use it for Crémant base. Kaja Kohv gives it a solo performance: direct press, 12 months on the lees in a single 500L old oak barrel, nothing else. No skin contact, no manipulation. The wine is the grape and the geology — clay over limestone that was the floor of a Jurassic sea 200 million years ago. At 9.5% alcohol, it is one of the most precise and least-interfered-with wines in the range.

Harvested by hand from 40-year-old vines on clay over limestone. Direct press, spontaneous fermentation in a 500L old oak barrel, 12 months sur lie, unfiltered. Zero residual sugar. Total sulphites 14 mg/l.

Serve well chilled at 8–10°C. This is a lean, mineral wine — cold is its element. No decanting needed. Drink young while the acidity is at its sharpest.