westhofener brunnenhauschen abst e riesling grosses gewachs

Weingut Keller

Westhofener Brunnenhauschen Abst E Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2015

Name: Westhofener Brunnenhauschen Abst E Riesling, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Weingut Keller
Price: 387.46 GBP

96/100

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2015
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£387.46

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Much more backward, salty, stony, reserved than Kirchspiel or Hubacker, a matrix of savoury complex, crisp minerals, linear and lifted, superb energy and a very fine central line in rock salt and stones. Very intense and weightless and dancing, there’s fruit too but just a glimpse now. An absolutely beauty, enormous concentration but delivered so elegantly.

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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.

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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.

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 audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

96/100

David Schildknecht,

Vinous

As usual, on the nose this bottling displays a dazzling, almost dizzying array of floral, herbal and mineral elements suggesting an alliance of sea breeze with an expansive spring meadow. Vividly fresh, brightly juicy lime and white peach are lusciously deployed on a buoyant, silken-textured palate. This doesn’t wear its tiny-berried concentration on its sleeve in the manner of so many piquantly gripping and austerely stony Wonnegau Grosse Gewächse. Instead, lime seed and chalk are adeptly integrated into a vibrant, coolingly herb-tinged, persistently floral, mouthwateringly saline and consummately refreshing performance. With its uncanny combination of poise and energy, it’s as if this wine were saying, “Let others engage in heavy lifting, futilely attempting to keep up with me on the dance floor.” “After we picked out the shriveled berries for TBA,” noted Keller, “the rest was at around 91 or 92 Oechsle, so we could afford to let it hang a bit longer through the chilly October and ended up picking at 94 or 95 Oechsle.”

drinking window 2017 - 2034

date of review 11/2017

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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.