Domaine Weinbach

Riesling, Cuvée Colette, 2023

Name: Riesling, Cuvée Colette
Brand: Domaine Weinbach
Price: 272.74 GBP

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2023
6x75cl
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£272.74

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A Riesling centred around pressed limes and oils, with an aromatic near-Thai suggestion of lemongrass atop ripe yellow fruits. Exotic in its aromatic complexity, but on the palate, it is surprisingly medium in body with a powerfully deep and horizontal, stony finish. Highly impressive with great acidity. Altenbourg is a well-known, unofficial Premier Cru site, planted on limestone soils. Eddy explained that the limestone produces Rieslings that take longer to open up, though in our view this 2023 is very good already. Total production sits at just 2,000 bottles. The wine has only been available for export since 2022.

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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

90/100

Anne Krebiehl,

Vinous

The 2023 Riesling Cuvée Colette was picked in the lieu-dit Bonnes Terres, at the foot of the Schlossberg, with deep deposits of granitic sands. The vines used are up to 60 years old. The nose is subtle, offering only brief glimpses of wet stone and Mirabelle. The palate stretches out into lemony zestiness, with lovely dryness and that granitic, naked astringency akin to pith. (Bone-dry)

drinking window 2025 - 2035

date of review 04/2025

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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.