Okonomierat Rebholz

Riesling, Kastanianbusch, Grosses Gewächs, 2020

Name: Riesling, Kastanianbusch, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Okonomierat Rebholz
Price: 441.13 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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Organic
2020
6x75cl
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£441.13

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The great Kastanienbusch vineyard rises from 150m above sea level to over 300m and is formed of red iron rich soils that are around 320 million years old. It tends to produce complex powerful Riesling that is nevertheless transparent and full of energy. Aromas of smoky cherries, raspberry and red iron rich slate soils dominate this broad, open, multifaceted GG Riesling in 2020. The minerality here is salty and ferrous, the fruit both red, crunchy and littered with herbs and grasses. The finish pulsates with intensity – this is Riesling that tastes like little else in Germany.

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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

93/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2020 Kastanienbusch Riesling GG comes from a ripe vintage and shows intense light fruit, more reminiscent of pome fruit than stone fruit. Initially without the cool vein of the site in hot years, it's still subtle and becomes more narrative with more air. Dense and smooth on the palate but fine and elegant, with a decidedly clear and mineral finish, even salty, this is a Riesling with few hedonistic talents. It remains slim and lively, with a fine savoriness and saltiness as well as tonic notes of bitter lemon. It's rather restrained in the long finish, which shows intensity and strength but currently little friskiness. Tasted at the Rebholz Kastanienbusch/Christmann Idig/Wittmann Morstein vertical tasting in Westhofen in August 2024.

drinking window 2027 - 2040

date of review 10/2024

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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.