Riesling, Im Sonnenshein, Grosses Gewächs
Okonomierat Rebholz

Riesling, Im Sonnenshein, Grosses Gewächs


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2018
6x75cl
DP
£337.22


Okonomierat Rebholz, Riesling, Im Sonnenshein, Grosses Gewächs, 2018

2018

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Okonomierat Rebholz, Riesling, Im Sonnenshein, Grosses Gewächs, 2018

A touch of savoury smoke and yellow plum fruit. Deep and layered. Salty yellow fruits and very fine energetic minerals that grip and dance across the palate. Open, zesty and very long. A top class limestone vineyard.

Maturity:
Keep/Drink
ABV:
13%
91/100
David Schildknecht, Vinous

Apple and lime are here joined by raw winter squash, mirabelle and muskmelon for an appealingly ripe impression on both the nose and the full, palpably glycerol-rich palate. The long finish is clear and juicy, if for now at least lacking the vibrancy or mineral characteristic of the corresponding “Muschelkalk” bottling (which is essentially this Im Sonnenschein’s second wine). Rebholz certainly considers this the more age-worthy not to mention otherwise superior of the two, and in a reversal of what one frequently experiences with Grosse Gewächse and their ostensibly lesser siblings, this is the more sensually satisfying of the two bottlings.
Date Reviewed:
03/2021

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country:
Germany

region:
Pfalz

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Okonomierat Rebholz

Okonomierat Rebholz

A great name in German wine circles and the leading estate of the Pfalz, Okonomierat Rebholz represents the region at its most uncompromising, precise and pure. If the Pfalz is often known for producing full-bodied, fruit forward wines, Hansjorg Rebholz's wines come as a crisp pure breath of fresh air. Never chaptalising or de-acidifying, nor allowing his wines to soften through malolactic fermentation, the Rebholz style aims to be as transparent a translation of vintage and site as possible; the house style, honed now over three generations, is bone dry, crystal clear, pure and unadulterated. Possessing some of the finest vineyard sites in the Pfalz on a smorgasbord of different soils, Hansjorg and his team craft a broad range of wines. Riesling sits at the core making up 40% of the plantings, supported by some of Germany’s finest and most focussed Pinot Blancs, a concise selection of top level Spatburgunders and some truly classy, balanced Sekts. All of the dry white wines below are fermented and aged in steel, with a minimum of intervention, resting upon fine lees until bottling, which is done without fining and the lightest of filtrations. The results, naturally possessing high levels of CO2, are long, intense, pure wines that often require, and are always capable of, extended ageing.

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