Battenfeld-Spanier

C.O. Liquid Earth, 2019

Name: C.O. Liquid Earth
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier
Price: 905 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2019
6x75cl
EP
£905.00
2019
6x75cl
EP
£905.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A pure rocky, sleek and elegant Riesling which marries power with control and detail. Immensely long, smooth and pared back in a surprisingly drinkable style already given that first and foremost CO Liquid Earth is a wine of the stone, the wind and the earth – a true Zellertal Riesling. Majestic, bell-clear and unbelievably classy. The first German wine to have the honour of being distributed via La Place de Bordeaux

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost 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

93/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The intensely yellow-golden colored 2019 Riesling C.O. Steinlinden Liquid Earth is from a lieu-dit in Molsheim that opens with a deep, intense and precise bouquet of ripe fruits, crushed limestone and lemon chutney. Dense, elegant and juicy on the palate, with a fine tannin and especially phenolic structure, this is a full-bodied, elegant and tight Riesling from Molsheim's limestone soils. Very intense and charmingly juicy, this is an elegant, refined and finely grippy Riesling that shows a fine first maturity after five years. To be released in October 2024. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2024.

drinking window 2024 - 2034

date of review 10/2024

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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.