"Produced for the first time since 1921, Weil's 2018 Riesling Monte Vacano offers a very clear, pure, fresh, refined and flinty quartzite bouquet with an intense, perfectly ripe lemon and white peach aroma that represents the coolish and crystalline soul of this special selection from a particular phyllite section within the Grosse Lage Gräfenberg. With the histori...
Vines have been cultivated at Weingut Robert Weil for four generations. The founder of the estate, Dr. Robert Weil, purchased the first vineyards on the Kiedricher Berg in 1867. At the time, he was still a professor of German at the Sorbonne in Paris, until events prior to the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) forced him to leave. He bought the manor of the late English baronet Sir John Sutton in Kiedrich – a village in the Rheingau dating from 90...
The quality and unmistakable identity of a wine originate in the vineyard. The renown of a site, which is determined by historical as well as microclimatic and geological circumstances, plays a role, but strict quality-oriented vineyard management is the decisive factor. Weingut Robert Weil’s vineyards on the heights at the foothills of the Taunus Hills number among the Rheingau’s finest sites. The vines range in age up to more than 50 years a...
Weingut Robert Weil has the same high standards for operations in the vineyard and in the cellar. The most modern technical know-how is combined with proven methods of traditional winemaking to preserve and fully realize in the cellar the potential of what nature provides. To receive and press the crop as gently as possible, clusters are transported via a so-called vibrating trailer. This method of transfer uses a special vibration technique. ...
Although the Rheingau is one of Germany’s smaller winegrowing regions, its ca. 3,100 ha(7,660 acres) of vineyards are vastly diverse in their geological makeup. They can be divided into three zones: vineyards in proximity to the Rhine, vineyards on the higher reaches of the middle plateau, and vineyards on the heights at the foothills of the Taunus Hills. Among these high-lying sites (up to 240m/ 780 ft in altitude) surrounding Kiedrich lie th...
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