Kühling-Gillot

Kreuz, Spätburgunder, Grosses Gewächs, 2022

Name: Kreuz, Spätburgunder, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Kühling-Gillot
Price: 344.74 GBP

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2022
75cl
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2022
6x75cl
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Kreuz always seem to have a more expressive and spicier persona with respect to the Kirchenstuck, which is a little silkier and sweet-berried by comparison. Kreuz 2022 is more on the red fruits with background notes of herbs, fine earth and even a touch of caraway, advancing on the palate with a wash of mineral-rich, ripe tannins and long edgy finish. Kreuz is home to the first grafted Burgundian Pinot clones in Germany, planted at the same time as Huber’s Wildenstein. The rootstocks in this Oppenheim vineyard are an impressive 70 years old and the plants date back to 1996. On a gentle incline of 30%, facing southeast, the soils are loess and limestone.

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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 2022 Spätburgunder Oppenheimer Kreuz Grosses Gewächs has the smokiness of a just-extinguished candle on the nose. Immediate and concentrated freshness strikes on the palate, where ripe tannins are already fused and smooth, framing tart but ripe red cherry juiciness. This has elegance and sinew, a shapely body and much allure. It walks a beautiful tightrope between finesse and generosity, finishing so juicy and so long. (Bone-dry)

drinking window 2026 - 2050

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.