The style at Lauer is 180 degrees from his famous Saar neighbors, Egon M�ller and Hanno Zilliken � the focus is on dry and off-dry Rieslings as opposed to the residual sugar (Kabinett, Sp�tlese, Auslese) wines of the latter two. Yet the hallmarks are similar: purity, precision, rigor, mineral. While the great majority of wines are sourced from the solid hillside of the Ayler Kupp, this single mountain is really an intricate tapestry of parcels and sub-parcels. Lauer bottles based on �fass�, or cask, numbers that are often aligned with the names of pre-1971 vineyard names. However, one shouldn�t take the fass numbers too seriously; they are based on the parcels that historically went into these fass and the style of wine they most often produced. One example, �Fass 6 � Senior� is based on a selection that Florian�s grandfather made every year for his personal consumption. On this barrel, he would write �Senior.� According to Florian, nine times out of ten, his grandfather would pick Fass 6, which held wine sourced from the western-most region of the Kupp. Thus, today, the wine from this parcel is called �Fass 6 � Senior.�
