Birgit Eichinger

Gaisberg, Erste Lage Riesling, 2020

Name: Gaisberg, Erste Lage Riesling
Brand: Birgit Eichinger
Price: 177.94 GBP

95+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2020
6x75cl
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£177.94

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Ripe yellow fruits, honeysuckle, spice and Mirabelle fruits burst out of the glass, leading to an array of tangy lime and citrus fruits, notes of pineapple and crisp green papaya nots on the palate. Fruity certainly, but also cleansing and mineral, finishing on salt and spices. From a steep terraced site on crystalline rock and mica schist, the Gaisberg is one of the best sites for Riesling in the region. Fermented and aged exclusively in stainless steel.

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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.

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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

95+/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The radiant golden colored 2020 Ried Zobinger Gaisberg 1OTW Kamptal Riesling is fascinatingly clear, intense and mineral on the deep and complex yet fine and elegant nose that reveals ripe and concentrated lemon aromas intermixed with flinty notes from the gneiss and schist terroir of Eichinger's Gaisberg. Round and juicy but also crystalline and fine on the palate, this is a full-bodied, salty-piquant and sustainable Riesling with fine phenolic grip and stimulating piquancy on the finish. This is a rich but tensioned and still fine Riesling made for longer bottle aging. Tasted in Grafenegg, September 2021.

drinking window 2026 - 2050

date of review 12/2021

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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.