2015 Kiedricher Grafenberg Riesling GG
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Full bottle all of 1,494 g. Mature, mildly floral Riesling nose but rather lacking fruit on the palate. The high acidity I noted when tasting it on release in 2016 is still there. Surely I'm not drinking it too young? I fear the acidity always trumped the fruit since surely a GG should be drinking well at nine, nearly 10, years old? I could imagine this coming into its own with goat's cheese but without food it's a bit demandingly austere. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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From steep slopes of up to 60% incline. Warm vintage. One year on lees and not stirred. RS 5.8 g/l, TA 8. 3 g/l. Little bit of CO 2 in the glass. Caro Maurer MW thinks this tastes like Assyrtiko. Floral aromas and some evolution. (JR)
The 2015 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Trocken GG is delicate and filigreed on the nose, provided with herbal notes and lovely stony aromas. Filigreed on the palate as well, this is an elegant, savory and intense Gräfenberg that is herbal on the long, intense and saline finish. It has great tension, salinity and finesse. This is impressive. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Kiedrich, August 2025.
Musky floral perfume of peony and narcissus mingles with scents of kumquat, grapefruit, papaya and ripe pear. The satiny palate conveys similarly decadent inner-mouth perfume and tropically ripe fruit, with the zest and piquancy of citrus peel rendered forcefully by the wine’s 13 percent alcohol. More aggressive phenolics vis-à-vis this wine’s Klosterberg and Turmberg counterparts are typical for Weil’s Gräfenberg Grosses Gewächs, but are here partly assuaged by a glossy palate feel. And while this wine’s formidably sustained finish incorporates a major dose of mineral salts as well as alkali and crushed stone, the effect is more austere and marginally less mouthwatering than that conveyed by either the corresponding Turmberg or this vintage’s overachieving village-level Kiedricher. Not for the first time, I ask myself whether Weil’s Grosses Gewächs unnecessarily sacrifices charm in the interest of seriousness. I am hoping for an opportunity to compare several years old Gräfenberg and Turmberg in parallel.