2010 Keller Riesling Westhofener Kirchspiel RR (Halb-Trocken), 750 ml
List Price:
$47.95
Scores:
Type: Still
Country: Germany
Region: Rheinhessen
Designation: QBA
Varietal(s): Riesling
DESCRIPTION:
John Gilman, View from the Cellar: "The 2010 Riesling 'RR' is also outstanding this year. The wine offers up a simply brilliant bouquet of blood orange, wild yeasts, pink grapefruit, petrol, wonderfully complex soil tones and a floral topnote redolent of lemon blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, fullbodied, very pure and brilliantly complex, with a superb core of fruit, ripe, perfectly integrated acids and simply stunning length and grip on the dancing finish. As I tasted this stunning RR, I imagined that this was a fine harbinger for the quality of the Hubacker this year, and indeed, it is probably the best vintage I have ever tasted for that particular Grosses Gewächs bottling! If you
have access to the 2010 RR, do not miss it!"
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Among a collection of bottles that to some extent define what Riesling grown in limestone soils can achieve, the "RR" is sourced from a unique, small, red-soil plot within the Kirchspiel Vineyard. This is a tiny island of color surrounded by the pure yellow limestone that makes up the rest of the site, and from which the famed Grosses Gewachs is sourced.
As you know, Riesling is incredibly sensitive to its surroundings and thus the "RR" has a much different voice than the regular Kirchspiel GG. The fruit is darker, more glazed and complex with notes of petrol and mint - in some vintages the nose can recall a sense of dark-sweet pungency, stones and moist earth, even tobacco and clay. If the nose is almost brooding and mysterious, on the palate this wine is full-bodied yet fierce, with Keller's signature glossy acids, sharp definition and simply superb length.
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