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Wine Description
The Story
The fruit here comes exclusively from the top, classified sites of Klosterberg, Turmberg and Gräfenberg. It's a blend of younger vine material, as well as first-picked parcels from these sites. As you would expect, it has a more textural mouthfeel - full of pulpy stone-fruit, tangy minerality and potent, racy freshness. It has flesh but veritably dances across the palate. The style is archetypal Rheingau and Kiedrich in particular (i.e. high g...
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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...