Okonomierat Rebholz

Riesling, Kastanianbusch, Grosses Gewächs, 2018

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

96/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

92/100

Vinous

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2018
Last Few
75cl
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£62.78
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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.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

96/100

Stephan 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

92/100

David 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

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.