From importer Terry Theise: "Kirschheck (cherry-hedge) is an unheralded Grand Cru, nearly ten hectares of which is 80% steep. The three growers I represent with parcels there all say it's slatey, but the standard reference book says: 'sandy loam on a bed of sandstone-Rotliegend.' Whatever! It tastes slatey. I've often found great affinity between these wines and Christoffel's Würzgartens; this seems to be an unusually happy vintage in Norheim! Pretty and piquant with swollen minerality and a kind of introverted power, wonderfully salty; this one perturbs nature as she moves through the world. Arresting depth of mineral; Helmut's best-ever wine from this site."