Robert Weil Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese 375ml 2022

Robert Weil's Gräfenberg Trockenbeerenauslese is a half-bottle of intensely sweet Riesling picked berry by berry from the estate's grand cru site.

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 summit of the Weil holdings, a steep south-facing amphitheatre whose deep phyllite slate holds warmth into autumn and encourages clean noble rot. At Trockenbeerenauslese level the fruit is picked as individual shrivelled berries, and the resulting wine sits at around 260 grams per litre of residual sugar against 12.4 grams of acidity and only 8 per cent alcohol.

Delicious young and among the longest-lived wines made anywhere, improving for decades. Serve at 8-10°C in small glasses with blue cheese, a tarte aux abricots or on its own after dinner.

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