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  • Country ranking ?

    80
  • Producer ranking ?

    30
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

The Kirchspiel is a brilliant terroir, which routinely produces one of the tightest young wines in the cellar and which Klaus-Peter describes as “always a wine of pure finesse and dancing minerality.” The vines at the top of the slope that find their way into the Grosses Gewächs bottling of Kirchspiel were planted in 1964, on the hard limestone section of the vineyard, laced with quartz veins. The result is a wine that delivers lovely, “cool f...

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There was another new, exciting discovery, a magical place in a faraway land seemingly only known to those who already know it. Those who already know it, and who like their fine wine, would most certainly dine at a certain Michelin-starred restaurant, so that’s just what I did. I have been drinking a lot of dry Rieslings (‘GGs’) this summer, so I couldn’t resist grabbing a half-bottle of one of Riesling’s top dogs right now, a 2009 Keller Kirschspiel GG. This had a fantastic nose that was clearly great and sweet with its citrus and lychee fruit, but also taut with a refreshingly cold minerality. There was nice petrol giving this some go, and it bristled on its palate. There was a satiny, tender and long finish to this delicious virtuoso. This goes under the ‘pure pleasure’ category (94).
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Origin

Mosel, Rheinhessen

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