Riesling, Kastanianbusch, Grosses Gewächs, 2018

Name: Riesling, Kastanianbusch, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Okonomierat Rebholz
Price: 62.78 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2018 2020 2021

justerini & brooks tasting note

Floral complex and mineral aromas Reserved, deep and with a fine acid and mineral line that is threaded through the mid palate. Very complete and long and layered with complex salty red slate and tangy plum notes. Long and full, stacked with ripe phenolic grip. This will require longer than others in this range time to shed the sheer concentration you find today.

critic reviews

96/100Stephan Reinhardt,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 Kastanienbusch Riesling GG is a long-lasting and promising wine with a vintage-appropriate opulent but precise and elegant nose with deep, bright fruit and terroir notes of rocks and herbs. It's very clear and precise, wrapping the generous ripeness in a cool robe. This is intense and quite powerful on the palate, dense, juicy and firmly structured but with elegant, fine and stimulatingly salty thanks to a delicate interplay of acids. It has spicy, intense length with herbal notes and lemon bitters. Tasted from magnum at the Rebholz Kastanienbusch/Christmann Idig/Wittmann Morstein vertical tasting in Westhofen in August 2024.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2050

date of review 10/2024

92/100David Schildknecht,Vinous

Pear and mango offer a very ripe aromatic and palate impression, alluringly garlanded in iris and peony, then reinforced by the glycerol-richness that Rebholz takes to be characteristic of 2018s. Nutty piquancy and an underlying sense of wet stone serve for welcome counterpoint to the effusiveness of fruits and flowers and emerge on the finish with pith and even an unexpected hint of austerity. This bottling should be fascinating to follow.

DRINKING WINDOW 2021 - 2030

date of review 03/2021