Log in / Sign up Robert Weil Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Spätlese 2022
Weil is widely considered one of the true greats of the sweeter Prädikat styles. One of the keys to this estate’s success with these wines is that the mountainous, rocky setting of the Kiedricher Berg vineyards allows for a perfect balance between natural sweetness, mouth-watering freshness and pungent, intense minerality.
Think about everything you love in this grower’s Spätlese, and then add some more. A wine of sublime purity and chiselled tension, the ‘22 offers up a kaleidoscopic array of flavour—try all kinds of citrus, quince, sweet yellow florals, woody herbs and slatey notes—perfectly balanced by thrilling, daisy-fresh acidity and mineral precision. Weil’s picking army, which numbers up to 70 strong, has worked its magic again, gifting a beguiling, pure, tangy wonder that seems to dissolve in the mouth. The 9% alcohol comes in very handy: It’s impossible to stop drinking. Blue velvet.
Roast pork belly and pickled green mango.
Clear, fine, fresh and iodine-inflected on the nose that is precise and complex, even with more phyllite (and tea) notes than the rich (but dry) GG.
The palate is really rich in terms of texture, but it is firmly structured and nicely drying on the saline, savory, oh-so-tensioned finish. This is a superb Spätlese with great aging potential. 9% stated alcohol.
