Battenfeld-Spanier

Kirchenstück, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2020

Name: Kirchenstück, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier
Price: 285.13 GBP

95+/100

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2020
75cl
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£47.51
2020
75cl
DP
£47.51
2020
6x75cl
DP
£285.13
2020
6x75cl
DP
£285.13

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Both red fruited and salty, this plays the elegance card beautifully, with classical proportions and a real sense of finesse as it sweeps fine citrus notes and smooth stones effortlessly across the palate. A seamless GG of real elan. This is the warmest site Oliver farms, perched above the house in Hohen-Sulzen and every year they refine their farming to help dial in the precision of the wine.

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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

95+/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

From Hohen-Sulzen in Rheinhessen, Battenfeld's 2020 Kirchenstuck Riesling GG is pure and elegant on the nose that shows ripe and intense fruit along with great complexity in a rather "Burgundian" style. Amusingly, the wine seems open and reductive at the same time. Salty, vital and tensioned on the palate, this is a juicy, elegant and persistently salty Kirchenstuck with a pure and salty but sustainable finish. Outstanding and surely the finest Kirchenstuck I have ever tasted from HO Spanier! Tasted in Wiesbaden at the end of August 2021.

drinking window 2021 - 2036

date of review 09/2021

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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.