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Wine Description
The Story
A classic sweet wine benchmark showcasing the balance between natural residual sugar and soaring natural acidity.
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Harvest & Botrytis: The microclimate of Gräfenberg, aided by humid breezes from surrounding Taunus forests,encourages late-season noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). Grapes are selectively hand-harvested berry by berry late in autumn to capture concentrated sugars and bright acids.
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Vinification & Style: Gentle pressing a...
Wine Information
Weingut Robert Weil.
The rise, fall and and rebirth of german wine can be represented byh the fate of Weingut Robert Weil.
The prices paid for german wines a century ago were at the level of, or in many cases higher than the price of the best wines from Bordeaux or Burgundy.
An example is Robert Weil’s famous 1893 Gräfenberg Riesling of which the imperial austrian court ordered 800 bottles at a price of 16 gold-mark per bottle. This rep...