08/07/2026
JUST LANDED. Singley & Lyslo “Klein Pause”
Chad and Megan have been working with Ulli Stein for close to a year now. They are also making their own wine.
I’ll give myself some credit here, or at least acknowledge my insight, my feeling that Chad and Megan are, somehow, Ulli Stein cosmically replicated by the universe into two thirty-something Americans from Utah and Colorado, respectively. Stranger things have happened?
The story of how they may weave themselves into Weingut Stein is a tale for another time. For the moment, I want to talk about the tiny amounts of wine they are making on their own: a project humbly called “Singley & Lyslo.”
The general aesthetic leans more toward what I’d call the “neue Moselle,” they have something of the playful curiosity of Stein, who has spent the last half-century defending traditions only to then upend them.
Importantly, with Stein, Lardot, and many of the growers we work with, their work is, literally, saving the Mosel. They are working old vines on even older terraces. Many of these sites would simply go fallow, were it not for their labor.
For that, and for the wines, I am grateful. I’m also excited to see how this story develops.
“Kleine Pause” translates to a “short break” or “short rest,” presenting a nice reminder to stop and smell the flowers. Conveniently: The label in fact features flowers. In this case the annual edible herb Borage, also sometimes called starflower. Borage grows wild in the vineyard the wine comes from, the Zeller Kreuzlay.
I would say the “Kleine Pause,” is herbal and salty with a lovely mid-palate of citrus and lemon balm. The overall effect feels sort of effortless, and easy, with a hazy acidity that keeps the wine feeling just superbly fresh.
