Battenfeld-Spanier

Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2022

Name: Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier
Price: 423.13 GBP

97/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93-96/100

Vinous

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2022
75cl
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£70.51
2022
6x75cl
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£423.13

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A very windy site that offers up light to the Hergott’s darkness. A super sophisticated nose, marrying freshly squeezed lemon juice, brine, complex notes of wild fermentation with white pepper and a touch of fennel. The soil is extremely rocky and stony, not heavy at all. “It took us 20 years to truly understand the elegance of this wine” Oliver explained. It seems like they’ve got a pretty good handle on it now. The vines here have very little topsoil before diving straight into limestone. Buffeted by wind from the Zellertal valley, sitting at 280m above sea level, this is always the last vineyard to be harvested and the wines have an aromatic clarity that is startling.

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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.

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Critic Reviews

97/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The intensely yellow-colored 2022 Nieder-Florsheim Frauenberg GG is from pure, calcareous soils and opens with a deep and chalky, lemony bouquet with notes of crushed stones, blueberry bushes. Round and refined on the palate, with fine, silky tannins and a smooth, chalky texture, this is a fabulous Frauenberg whose finish is still astringent and not singing but the potential is superb. It's a generous and substantial wine that should be drunk years from now. It will be released in spring of next year. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2023.

drinking window 2030 - 2050

date of review 12/2023

93-96/100

Anne Krebiehl,

Vinous

The 2022 Riesling Nieder-Flörsheimer Frauenberg Grosses Gewächs benefited from its 280m-elevation and exposed nature that ensures ventilation. This is always the last site to be harvested. The nose is still shy. Gentle cream, fresh, green hazelnut kernel, Amalfi lemon and lemon balm hints only appear slowly and remain subdued. It strikes an immediate balance on the palate: coolness, creaminess, balm-like and concentrated texture that seems soothing, cooling and benign. Very concentrated notes of ripe lemon appear alongside phenolics reminiscent of tea leaf tannins. This is stunning, layered, pure, but above all, textured. A marvel. The long finish holds a delicious flicker of grapefruit zest. (Bone-dry)

drinking window 2030 - 2050

date of review 09/2023

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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.