Quality rather than quantity: 2017 has great potential
The fascinating 2017 vintage is also one of a kind. The smallest volume here in our wi- nery since the excellent 1971. In many parcels, the Riesling yield barely exceeded 20 hl/ha. For the Pinot Noir, in some instances it was even less.
We are obviously sad because we already know that we don’t have enough wine in our cellar to satisty our customers. But from a quality perspective, th...
One of Germany’s truly great estates. Since the late eighties, Klaus Keller has rapidly gained a very serious reputation for making top flight German Riesling in both dry, fruity and sweet styles. More recently, Klaus’s son Klaus-Peter has joined the team after completing his wine-making studies at Geisenheim and is helping to drive quality forward even further.
As with any top producer worth his salt, Keller believes good vineyard managem...
One has to go back to the Middle Ages to find the last time that the villages of Dalsheim, Flörsheim and Westhofen were in the vinous ascendancy. At that time the church hierarchy, then based in the nearby and important medieval city of Worms, were staunch enthusiasts of the wines from the best vineyards in these villages, including Morstein, Hubacker and Kirchspiel in which the Kellers now have parcels. There are several ancient documents tha...
The wines are made to be balanced, or, as Klaus Peter told us during a visit, “for me a perfect wine is when you can’t wait to open a second magnum”! Work in the vineyard, choices about when to harvest, selection of oak for the red wines, and the accompaniment of the whites through fermentation is all done with an eye towards creating wines that are truly a pleasure to drink. So how does he do it, technically? He’d prefer not to say.
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As about sixty percent of the Kellers’ vineyards are planted to riesling, there is a pretty strong possibility of wine lovers laying hold of some bottles of the two regular riesling cuvées. However, as the estate’s fame has swiftly grown amongst German wine lovers both inside and outside of the country, it is becoming more of a challenge to find bottles of the Keller Grosses Gewächs bottlings, of which there are currently four different ones f...
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