zellerweg am schwarzen herrgott grosses gewachs

Battenfeld-Spanier

Zellerweg am Schwarzen, Herrgott, Grosses Gewächs, 2023

Name: Zellerweg am Schwarzen, Herrgott, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier
Price: 70.31 GBP

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2023
75cl
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£70.31
2023
6x75cl
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£421.93

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A GG of deep minerality imbued with pulpy limes, cut apples, aniseed, fennel and pink grapefruit, the Zellerweg am Schwarzen Herrgott is super complex with a honed, controlled, inner strength. Wonderful. The vines here quickly hit dark limestone and the effect on the palate is one of structured minerality. This is one of the oldest known vineyard sites in Germany, first recognised in the 8th Century. The vineyard is technically split in to two sections – the Zellerweg am Schwarzen Herrgott which sits administratively in the Rheinhessen, whilst the part below the road is dubbed just Am Schwarzen Herrgott under jurisdiction of the Pfalz. Both have dark limestone soils and are heavily influenced by the Donnersberg mountains to the west, from where cool winds flow.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost 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.

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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

96/100

Anne Krebiehl,

Vinous

The 2023 Riesling Mölsheimer Zellerweg Am Schwarzen Herrgott Grosses Gewächs already has a suspicion of citrus lift and lemon oil purity on the nose. That purity comes with exquisite fluidity and inherent coolness on the palate. This is totally zesty with pervasive freshness, elegant, light and gracefully contoured—pristine, in fact. (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.