Robert Weil Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Beerenauslese 375ml 2022

Robert Weil's Gräfenberg Beerenauslese is a half-bottle of sweet Riesling made from botrytised berries picked on the estate's grand cru slope.

The Rheingau's Kiedricher Berg rises steeply behind the village of Kiedrich, and Weingut Robert Weil has held the best of it since the 1860s. The estate's reputation rests as much on its botrytis wines as on its dry Rieslings. Harvest seldom starts before October and can run eight to ten weeks, with a team of up to forty pickers going through the rows in as many as seventeen passes, taking only berries that have shrivelled cleanly. The site is rocky and airy enough that the sugar never arrives without the acidity to carry it. Gräfenberg is the highest point of the Weil holdings, a steep south-facing amphitheatre of deep phyllite slate that holds warmth well into autumn and brings on clean noble rot. Beerenauslese takes botrytised berries that are concentrated but short of fully raisined, which keeps a degree of transparency and tension alongside the sweetness. Quantities are always tiny.

Beautiful young and among the longest-lived wines in any cellar. Serve at 8-10°C with poached stone fruit, foie gras or a mature blue cheese.

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