Battenfeld-Spanier

Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2023

Name: Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier
Price: 70.31 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

97/100

Vinous

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2023
75cl
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£70.31
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2023
6x75cl
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£421.93

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Bright and dazzling with a tight lemony profile, Frauenberg is a wine of white stone, minerals and gently pressed flowers. Buttressed by nervy acidity, briny stone fruits, elderflower and limes, there is a sense of lightness and transparency here that is simply startling. A very windy site that offers up light to the Hergott’s darkness. The soil is extremely rocky and stony, not heavy at all. 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 second to none.

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Provenance in fine wine

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.

Further Reassurance

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

94/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The intensely yellow-colored 2023 Nieder-Florsheim Frauenberg GG is intense yet pure and chalky on the nose that is reminiscent of crushed rocks with lemon oil. Textured, finely saline and with weathered chalk featured on the powdery-silky palate, this full-bodied, layered and elegant Riesling is beautifully balanced and savory-saline on the mouth-watering finish. This is gentle and even silky for a wine from pure white limestone. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2024.

drinking window 2024 - 2036

date of review 10/2024

97/100

Anne Krebiehl,

Vinous

Grown at 280 meters, the 2023 Riesling Nieder-Flörsheimer Frauenberg Grosses Gewächs immediately has a gentle, creamy tone on the nose, fringed with a touch of savory ivy. Lemon brightness follows that creaminess, running right through onto the smooth, svelte but exquisitely luminous and salty palate. There’s such sleekness here—a wonderful marriage of creamy texture and pristine, cool, chalky lemon. Immense charm, freshness and elegance just glide and shine on the long, long finish that is as soothing as it is refreshing. This is grace and poise in a bottle. (Bone-dry)

drinking window 2028 - 2060

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.