Last week we were honored to share with you that Wine & Spirits named Robert Weil—along with Dr. Loosen and C. von Schubert—to the Top 100 Wineries of 2012. The list recognizes wineries from around the world that have delivered the best overall performances in W&S tastings throughout the year.
Robert Weil winemaker Wilhelm Weil
We thought you’d like to know what Wine & Spirits says about Robert Weil wines. (Robert Weil is part of our “Friends of Ernst Loosen” portfolio.)
And if you’ll be in San Francisco on Oct. 17, please join us for the W&S Top 100 Tasting at City View at METREON, where we will be pouring the 2010 Gräfenberg BA and the 2010 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Trocken.
[90] Wine & Spirits
This shows an elegant and pure expression of minerality, its fragrantly stony aromas infusing the richly textured fruit. It’s tautly structurd and vividly defined, finishing with a briny, savory complexity.
2010 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Spätlese
[94] Wine & Spirits
This is exceptionally sophisticated in the way it expresses its fruit on the palate, unfolding with graceful elegance and multi-dimensional complxity. While it’s opulent in its concentration of flavor, it also feels saturated by a dark, stony minerality, adding to the sense of detail and finesse.
2010 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Beerenauslese
[95] Wine & Spirits
While this is undeniably rich, it also demonstrates a marvelous detail, its velvety flavors of roasted peach and tropical fruits enlivened by a firm spine of acidity. It’s complex and palate staining in its intensity, yet for all its power, it’s most impressive for its elegance, refinement and poise.
Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
[96] Wine & Spirits
The class of this site is on full display even at this level of must-weight. While powerfully concentrated with luscious flavors of yellow peach, mango and jackfruit, the wine carries them with astounding grace and poise, energized by vivid acidity and made more complex by insistent aromas of slate. This is almost daunting in its intensity, yet if feels exceptionally harmonious, expanding on the palate with gripping length.