Oestricher Lenchen, Spätlese 303
Spreitzer

Oestricher Lenchen, Spätlese 303


Destination

vintage


portfolio

Portfolio
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2018
75cl
DP
£31.04

2018
6x75cl
DP
£186.31

2019
6x75cl
DP
£201.62

2020
75cl
DP
£31.04

2020
6x75cl
DP
£186.31

2021
6x75cl
DP
£172.18

2022
6x75cl
DP
£171.91


Spreitzer, Oestricher Lenchen, Spätlese 303, 2018

2018

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Spreitzer, Oestricher Lenchen, Spätlese 303, 2018

Coming exclusively from the Eisenberg this is rich with red apples and sweet acacia honey on the nose. This is in reality more of a baby Auslese than a Spatlese, dripping with quince paste, peaches in sweet syrup and honeysuckle. Pure pleasure, luscious without being over the top.

Maturity:
Keep/Drink
ABV:
7.5%
92/100
David Schildknecht, Vinous

Mango, pink grapefruit, pear, lychee, honeysuckle and lily combine for a headily exotic and almost overripe nose. Luscious, almost gaudy ripeness and perfume are the inner-mouth story as well, backed by gloss and considerable sweetness – though not the excessive sweetness that this bottling at one time tended to exhibit. The lingering finish displays real vibrancy, no doubt in large part owing to the wine’s harboring vintage-atypically high acidity of 10 grams. And that in turn is almost certainly a result of light desiccation of healthy fruit, which is also what gives this bottling its Auslese-like aura. (For the history of this bottling and its name, see especially my review of its vintage 2015 instantiation.)
Date Reviewed:
04/2021

specifications

country:
Germany

region:
Rheingau

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Spreitzer

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Allergen Information:
This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.


Spreitzer

Spreitzer

A magnificent 17 ha estate at Oestrich in the widest part of the Rhine, where sun reflection and humidity are so important. The Spreitzer brothers are a young team that in the last few years has elevated this into one of the Rheingau's great estates. Depending on the wine and the vintage a mixture of wood or steel is used and wild or cultured yeast. Usually the dry wines are fermented in oak and the fruity wines in steel. The main vineyard holdings are the loam and loess soils of the Lenchen and the quartz based Doosberg. The Spreitzer brothers are very active in the vineyard, reducing yield by pruning and green harvesting, and deleafing where necessary to aerate the vines. Hand picking is vitally important here as they do lots of whole cluster pressing. In the cellar there is no pumping of the wines, its all done by gravity. There is usually no fining but a light filtration. Spreitzer make wines that betray full, rich Rheingau characteristics with an almost Mosel precision and energy. A star Estate by any standards.

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