Weingut Robert Weil
Rheingau 2022 Riesling Kiedrich Turmberg Trocken
Weingut Robert Weil
Rheingau 2022 Riesling Kiedrich Turmberg Trocken
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The Wine Advocate 94/100
The 2022 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Trocken comes from the 3.8-hectare cru that is classified as VDP.Grosse Lage but internally as VDP.Erste Lage with reference to the own history. It opens with a coolish, precise, deep, stony and almost flinty bouquet due to the phyllite soils of the steep slope and intermingles these with ripe yellow stone fruit, lemon and floral aromas. On the palate, this is a full-bodied, very pure and elegant, mouth-filling yet structured and saline Turmberg with serious terroir expression and the intensity of the vintage. Bottled at the end of July like the Klosterberg and the Gräfenberg. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2023.
"We started the year 2022 with a very warm winter," recalls Wilhelm Weil, then immediately he adds that the replenishment of water reserves over the winter precipitation was to become "essential for the survival" of one or two vineyards. This is because the summer of 2022 was characterized by high temperatures and very low rainfall during the summer.
Budbreak on April 20 was still in line with the long-term average, but the start of flowering in the first days of June was already seven days ahead of the long-term average because Mother Nature sent plenty of sunshine and warmth in May.
However, due to the increasing drought and southern European heat, the vineyards then increasingly found their natural brake on assimilation, so that the lead in vineyard development was not significantly extended over the summer.
Nevertheless, the start of ripening was nine days ahead of the average, and the grape harvest even started 10 days earlier than normal on September 20.
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Weingut Robert Weil
Rheingau / Duitsland
Rheingau, land van de koninklijke rieslingdruif. Op de droge, stenige hellingen met zuidelijke zonexpositie van dit wijngebied stijgt de soort tot grote hoogten. De gebruikelijke lange rijpingsperiode van de druif wordt benut voor de vorming van de fijnste fruitzuren en sappigste aroma’s. Weingut Weil – in 1875 opgericht door Dr. Robert Weil, professor Duits op de Sorbonne in Parijs – bezit wijngaarden die behoren tot de mooiste percelen van de Rheingau: de Kiedrich Turmberg en de Kiedrich Gräfenberg. Ze staan aangeplant met uitsluitend rieslingdruiven. Hellingshoeken kunnen oplopen tot wel zestig procent, dus hier wordt met de hand geplukt. De selectie van de druiven is uiterst kritisch: er kunnen wel 17 verschillende plukmomenten zijn in de wijngaarden. Al die moeite is niet voor niets: de Weil-rieslings zijn droog, bronwaterfris en mineralig. De balans tussen de rieslingzuren en de natuurlijke restsuiker maakt de wijnen ongelofelijk spannend en aantrekkelijk.
