Domaine Weinbach

Riesling, Grand Cru, Schlossberg, 2020

Name: Riesling, Grand Cru, Schlossberg
Brand: Domaine Weinbach
Price: 412.73 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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all 2010 2020 2021 2023

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Biodynamic
2020
75cl
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£68.78
Biodynamic
2020
6x75cl
DP
£412.73

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Another hugely expressive Riesling, Schlossberg hails from vines planted on the poorest granite soils at the top of this great Grand Cru vineyard. Bursting with wonderful floral notes, dried flowers, chamomile buds, fine herbs and fresh lime, it hits the palate like an train- intense saline notes alongside a powerful driving minerality derived from the granite soils. Taut and powerful, yet fine boned too.

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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.

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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.

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Critic Reviews

94/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Bottled in December last year, the 2020 Grand Cru Schlossberg Riesling offers pure and refined but also intense, lush and generous tropical fruit with passion fruit, papaya and mango aromas intertwined with the crystalline finesse and flintiness of the Schlossberg granite. Lush and round on the palate, this is a precise, saline and finely grippy Riesling with fine tannins and intense, sustainable fruit with stimulating bitters on the finish. It's salivating due to the really fine and crystalline acidity. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in May 2022.

drinking window 2022 - 2045

date of review 03/2023

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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.