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Wine Description
The Story
The other relatively large vineyard holding from which a Grosses Gewächs bottling from Weingut Keller is made is from the town of Dalsheim, and this is the Hubacker vineyard. This was the first vineyard that the Kellers owned, and it has been in the family since the estate was started in 1789. The Hubacker is also a limestone-based terroir, but in this case it is a yellow-veined limestone (as is also found in the Burgundy vineyard of Beaune “S...
Vintage 2013
Germany’s 2013 wine vintage was a challenging, high-acidity year saved by a warm, dry autumn, ultimately producing vibrant, focused, and exceptionally long-lived Rieslings. A cold, wet spring delayed flowering and fruit set, followed by rain and flooding in early summer that heightened rot pressure. However, a sunny and mild October allowed the grapes to achieve full phenolic maturity while retaining high natural acidity. The resulting wines a...