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Some excellent wines here, and a few disappointments. (Continue reading here.)
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2022 and 2021 Rheingau Riesling Part IV -- Barth, August Eser, Kaufmann, Künstler, Ress, Spreitzer
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Mostly Wisselbrunnen here, and the terroir really comes through. (Continue reading here.)
2021 Rheingau Riesling GG Part II -- Jung, Kloster Eberbach, Knyphausen, Künstler, von Oetinger
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If you want to see evidence that great Rheingau vineyards that had been languishing are flourishing in new hands, check out the Marcobrunn and Hohenrain GG’s below that now are coming from Künstler and von Oetinger (Jung and Kloster Eberbach have long been making very good wines from those vineyards). (Continue reading here.)
2022 and 2021 Rheingau Riesling GG Part I -- Flick, Künstler, and Werner
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In some quarters, the Rheingau’s reputation is unjustly demeaned by persons who think of early efforts in the 1980s and early 1990s to make dry wines (that were brutal because they were too dry) and because of some large estates that were underproducing. In the former case, the wines are now very well-balanced; and in the latter case, to a large extent, those estates don’t exist any more and the vines have been taken over by some of the top Rheingau estates.
As I indicated in an earlier post, the Rheingau VDP chapter has adopted a rule allowing producers to show their GG in the year following harvest, but they can only sell them beginning September 1 of the second year following harvest. So the 2021s are just coming to market now. (Continue reading here.)
2020 and 2019 Rheingau Spätburgunder GG Part II -- Hassel, Reichestal, Berg Schlossberg from Kloster Eberbach, Kaufmann, and Künstler
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Alas, less promising wines here than with the Höllenbergs. (Continue reading here.)
2020 and 2019 Rheingau Spätburgunder GG Part I -- Höllenberg from Allendorf, Kesseler, Kloster Eberbach, and Künstler
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Wines from this vineyard have a track record of long ageability. (Continue reading here.)
2021 and 2020 Rheingau Riesling GG Part VII: Berg Schlossberg and Berg Roseneck from Kloster Eberbach, Künstler, Leitz, and Prinz
More disappointments from the western Rheingau, with Prinz and Künstler as exceptions. (Continue reading here.)
2021 and 2020 Rheingau Riesling GG Part VI: Berg Rottland, Kaiserfels, Rosengarten from Johannishof, Künstler, Leitz, and Ress
With the exception of Johannishof, a very disappointing set of wines. (Continue reading here.)
2019 and 2018 Rheingau Grosses Gewächs Spätburgunder (Berg Schlossberg, Hassel, Höllenberg, Reichestal, Schlenzenberg from Allendorf, Diefenhardt, Kloster Eberbach, Künstler, Müller)
As with the Ahr, some producers have shown a disappointing reversion to past years when oak was more heavily (and clumsily) used. (Continue reading here.)
2020 and 2019 Rheingau Grosses Gewächs Riesling Part VII (Berg Schlossberg and Rosengarten from Künstler, Leitz, and Wegeler)
A somewhat disappointing finish to what on the whole is a very strong Rheingau GG survey. (Continue reading here.)
2020 (and a 2019) Rheingau Grosses Gewächs Riesling Part I (Hölle, Kirchenstück, Königen Victoriaberg, Nonnberg, Weiss Erd from Flick, Künstler, and Werner)
The delights of the 2020 vintage continue to show through in the Rheingau region. (Continue reading here.)
2018 Rheingau Riesling GG Part IV (Berg Roseneck, Berg Rottland, Berg Schlossberg, [Johannisberg] Hölle, Klaus, Rothenberg, Schloss Johannisberger, Seligmacher) -- Allendorf, Hessen, Künstler, Ress, Schloss Johannisberg, Wegeler
The end of the excellent 2018 Rheingau Riesling GG presentation. (Continue reading here.)
2018 Rheingau Riesling GG's Part I (Hölle, Kirchenstück, Königen Victoriaberg, Langenberg, Nonnberg "Vier Morgen", Schlenzberg, Weiss Erd) -- Diefenhardt, Flick, Künstler, Werner
As I indicated in my introduction, the Rheingau is one of the most successful regions of the vintage, and there are some genuinely exciting wines here. (Continue reading here.)
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