Aromatics: Flowers, fleshy ripe white fruits and sweet spices. A nuances and complex nose with plenty of warmth and generosity. Palate: Structured white with plenty of power and concentration. With this wine it’s like putting the volume up everything is deeper and more detailed. The balance and acidity in the wine is beautiful and the length stunning.

Aromatics: Notes of coins, menthe, fresh fruits and a beautiful mineral and smoky character. Palate: Very pure and balanced wine with a beautiful texture filled with fresh fruits. Delicious and long saline finish. Magnificent wine!

Organic. This is a special ‘Degree Oechsle’ bottling crafted from a selection of extremely dried-out grapes. Müller-Catoir recommends drinking this wine at a temperature of around 10 to 12°C from a large red wine glass, to tease out the wine’s extraordinary aromatic complexity. Alcohol 6%; acidity 12.3 g/L; residual sugar 443.6 g/L.

“Even had one not tasted the corresponding Beerenauslese, the deep bronze color; notes of leather and dried mushrooms; and nasal prickle of Muller-Catoir’s 2008 Gimmeldinger Schlossel Rieslaner Trockenbeerenauslese would make clear that you’ve traveled far deeper into the realm of botrytis than this grape will normally take anyone. Orange marmalade, peach preserves, and fresh lemon inform a plate of Eszencia-like, almost gelatinous viscosity, with a correspondingly uncanny sense of lift and of huge residual sweetness practically canceled out. The sharpness of citrus, pungency of citrus oil and botrytis spice; and piquancy of toasted nuts lend indelible and invigorating intensity to the finish, while nut brittle, glazed apricot, and peach preserves uphold a confectionery yet not hugely sweet persistence. At 400 grams residual sugar and 19 grams of acid, your mind can scarcely wrap itself around the analysis of this concentrate, much less around its performance. It’s almost too early to treat it as wine. There have been other remarkable examples of such Rieslaner essences in this estate’s history – though perhaps never one this intense – and experience suggests it will be worth following this one for more than three decades.” 96 points, David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate (tasted 2010)

WEINGUT ROBERT WEIL Kiedrich Grafenberg Grosses Gewachs Riesling Trocken

Thörle Schlossberg Riesling, Rheinhessen This single vineyard wine comes from the Schlossberg Vineyard at Saulheim in the north-eastern sector of Rheinhessen, the largest of Germany’s 13 major wine-producing regions. The vineyard lies at an elevation of between 170 and 235m and is the coolest of Thörle’s three top sites. The deep clay and limestone soils effectively store heat and water. The amphitheatre-like Schlossberg has a unique microclimate, protected from winds by the surrounding hills, yet with a direct, tunnel-like connection to the Rhine which enables a constant supply of warm air to Schlossberg even on cold autumn days. Schlossberg Rieslings have finesse and are commonly mineral, delicate and earthy, with good acidity. They are Thörle’s most elegant wines. The Thörle family has been making wine at Saulheim in Germany's Rheinhessen region since the 16th century. Christoph Thörle and his brother Johannes have been running the estate since 2006. The vineyards are managed organically. These three flagships, single vineyard wines are naturally fermented, with some skin contact, 90% in stainless steel, 10% in barrel.