Schloss Lieser

Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Riesling, Spätlese, 2017

Name: Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Riesling, Spätlese
Brand: Schloss Lieser
Price: 131.59 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

90/100

Vinous

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Summer Favourite
2017
75cl
DP
£21.92
Summer Favourite
2017
6x75cl
DP
£131.59
2017
3x1.5L
DP
£167.59

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A little spontaneous fermentation note soon blows off to reveal a nose of fine yellow fruits in this very pure, succulent and polished Spatlese. Key here is a deep core of slate minerality that drives this seamlessly from start to finish, the fruit fused effortlessly with the slick and complex slate notes of Wehlener Sonnenuhr. Effortlessly long.

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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.

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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

David Schildknecht,

Vinous

Temporarily cheesy, reductive aromatic overtones on the nose (exhibited at the same stage by the corresponding 2016) slightly detract from scents of fresh apple and honeysuckle. The palate is polished, subtly creamy and buoyant, with appley juiciness and inner-mouth perfume that follow into an unapologetically sweet but still refreshing finish of impressive sheer persistence.

drinking window 2021 - 2032

date of review 04/2020

94/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The bright colored 2017 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese is deep, sharp, fresh and precise on the flinty nose that's still a bit reductive. Salty-piquant and crunchy in its slatey character, this is a highly stimulating Spatlese with a long, intense and tensioned finish. A fabulous Spatlese. Tasted in March 2019.

drinking window 2024 - 2050

date of review 06/2019

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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.