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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...
Wine Information
This wine was labelled as Auslese although the residual sugar levels would justify Beerenauslese labelling.
Residual sugar: 142.7 g/L
Alcohol: 9.7%
97 points – Stephan Reinhardt /The Wine Advocate: "From golden-yellow (not pink) grapes that were slightly shriveled at 100° Oechsle and lost 30% of water, the lemon-yellow colored 2018 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Auslese opens with a fascinating, clear, piquant and spicy bouquet with lemon zest ...
Vintage 2018
ANOTHER "SUMMER OF THE CENTURY" IS IN THE BOOKS...
AND THIS ONE BEGAN IN APRIL!
WARMEST GROWTH CYCLE ON RECORD!
AND DESPITE ALL THAT, OUR KIEDRICH HILLSIDE VINEYARDS NEVER NEEDED
EXTRA SUN PROTECTION!
WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE VEGETATIVE PHASE FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER SET NEW BENCHMARKS: TAKEN TOGETHER, THOSE MONTHS WERE MORE THAN ONE-HALF DEGREE CELSIUS WARMER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD YEAR (1947); VIEWED THROUGH THE PRISM OF A SEV...
