Birgit Eichinger

Riesling, Ried Heiligenstein, Erste Lage, 2020

Name: Riesling, Ried Heiligenstein, Erste Lage
Brand: Birgit Eichinger
Price: 225.94 GBP

94+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2020
75cl
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£37.66
2020
6x75cl
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£225.94

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Tighter and cooler fruit coming after the Gaisberg, accompanied by elegant floral notes of violet and lavender, fresh white peach, citrus and cut mango. Very complex, with additional herbal and grassy notes, a taut powerful acidity and salty finish, the Heiligenstein is the jewel in the Riesling crown. One of Austria’s greatest sites, the Heiligenstein is a sandstone, volcanic site producing Rieslings rich in aroma and concentration. Fermented and raised exclusively in stainless steel.

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Provenance in fine wine

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

94+/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2020 Ried Zobinger Heiligenstein 1OTW Kamptal Riesling opens with very intense and ripe fruit that is not as bright as some of its peers but darker toned and intertwined with the sandstone notes of this impressive grand cru. On the palate, this is a rich and massive Riesling with a firm phenolic structure and intense and juicy fruit. This is a Heiligenstein that needs to be aged for years. The finish is tensioned, pure and salty but also round and rich and indicates great aging potential. Tasted in Grafenegg, September 2021.

drinking window 2027 - 2040

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.