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Wine Description
The Story
The crown jewel of Robert Weil and one of the rarest, most celebrated dessert wines in global viticulture.
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Extreme Selection: Crafted exclusively from shriveled, raisin-like berries thoroughly overtaken by noble rot.Water content evaporates almost entirely, leaving intensely concentrated sugars, acids, and dry extract. Yields are minuscule; it often takes an experienced picker an entire day to gather enough berries for a single half-b...
Wine Information
Today, the estate’s 90 ha (222 acres) of vineyards are planted 100% with Riesling.
Throughout its history the estate has always focused on the Riesling grape and adhered to strict, quality-ori- ented practices in the vineyard – such as stringent pruning to control yields and selective harvesting by hand – and in the cellar, where the wines are vinified as gently as possible. This unwavering and uncompromising quality management is central to ...
Vintage 2019
2018 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE WARMEST GROWTH PERIOD ON RECORD, BUT 2019 HAD ITS OWN VERY HOT AND ESPECIALLY
ABOVE-AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND WARM, DRY SOILS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR LED TO A VERY EARLY BUDBREAK ARRIVING BEFORE APRIL WAS EVEN HALFWAY DONE. AN UNUSUALLY COLD MAY THEN PUT THE BRAKES ON THIS 2-WEEK HEAD START AND FLOWERING ULTIMATELY ENDED IN MID-JUNE, ROUGHLY IN LINE WITH THE LONG-TERM AVERAGE.
DESPITE THE DROUGHT, THE ...
