Tasting Notes

Kiedrich Gräfenberg

2017 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG
The nose is still a bit closed, but it opens rather fast with pure elegance. Fresh, spicy minerality, fine fruit notes with exotic flavors, pineapple but also ripe yellow apple. On the palate fresh and precise acidity, savory spicy minerality of the fire stone style. Great elegant finish, everlasting with slight salt. More than promising!

2017 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Spätlese
The wine comes into the nose floral, white fruits, with beautiful freshness, racy because of the slate acidity. The palate presents a lively Spätlese with fine, full fruit, pears, white peach, green apples. Slightly spicy, racy acidity in the mouthwatering finish.

2016 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG
Beautiful nose with great minerality, peach, pear and floral beauty, one the palate smooth and elegant, juicy and with salty minerality in the amazing finish. Always loved the Gräfenberg - and we know why.

2016 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese
Opulent in the nose, you immediately recognize that this is something great in your nose, fruit notes of passion fruit, peach, ripe pear, cherry, apricots mix up with floral elements and herbs like lemon balm, on the palate a fresh and lively acidity jumps on you, that plays with the sweetness, the mineralic body carries it for very long. 

2016 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Eiswein
It is a deep wine like hardly any other. One drop on your tongue and your mouth is full of taste. Just having it in the glass outside in the garden lets you smell it from the distance. The nose is full and opulent, with a massive fruit basket, lots of passion fruit, mango and stone fruits in it. The palate comes so creamy, so dense, smoky, spicy basis, amazing fruit complexity and lots of honey. The finish is creamy and round, full and long honey-fruit-mix

2015 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG 
The nose is very inviting with big fruit, apple and pear but also exotic fruit notes, green kiwi, white pepper. On the palate quite aged already, honey, fruit, smoky. The finish comes spicy with pepper and lasts forever. Great stuff!

2015 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese
In the nose ripe fruits, mango and passion fruit, ripe peach, elegant spices like clove, slight mandarin peel. On the palate juicy and spicy, great dried exotic fruit notes, raisins, with spicy minerality underneath. Finishes mouthwatering, with ripe fruits and spices. Delicious Auslese!

2014 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG 
The 2014 comes with a very fresh, cool nose, lots auf pineapple and fine spices. On the palate plum and vanilla from the wood, spicy and slightly smoky.

2013 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG
Clear citrus, physalis, beautiful mineralization, great balance already, acidity very pure, herbal elements, brilliant finish with salty and fruity acidity, just great!

2012 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling GG 
The 2012 has a cooler nose again, slight petrol, spices, also floral. The palate is dense, long, plum, great spices, smooth, with pepper and first signs of honey.

2008 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Erstes Gewächs
Great minerals and a broad fruit basket in the nose, smooth on the palate, very soft, unbelievable mouthfill and complexity, again salty minerality in the finish, great fruit-acidity play. The additional five years are worth the waiting!

2006 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Erstes Gewächs
In the nose great freshness with of mix of citrus notes, dried herbs like mint and deep spices, nice inviting complexity, but all more crisp than juicy. On the palate super racy, great crisp acidity, grapefruit peel, great spices like pepper and flint elements, full-bodied but with all the necessary elegance to handle this complexity. Finishes everlasting with a fantastic mix of herbs and spices, orange peel and ripe citrus flavors. Amazing wine!

2004 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Erstes Gewächs
2004 is comparable to 2008 but the few more years make it even smoother, softer and more balanced, the age adds some fine honey to out, without loosing the great salt minerality and the perfect acidity-fruit balance. 

1996 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Spätlese trocken
The nose is racy and spicy, almost no aging recognizable, amazing, only slight smoke and a little bit of honey, the rest is beautiful fruit like apple, raspberry and donut peach plus pepper and herbal elements. On the palate a beautiful gentle and creamy acidity, deep spiciness, very racy and super fresh. You would never expect the age in a blind tasting. Amazing how fantastically this wine ages. Brilliant!

1994 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese
After 23 years it still has a beautiful spicy minerality - in the nose and on the palate. The aging notes of caramel, honey and dried fruit did not at all cover the fruit and herbal notes. You taste peaches, apples and pepper. The finish is long and spicy. It easily can last 23 more years. Bravo!

1992 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese
All the great flavors of older Rieslings - like honey, caramel, still with nice acidity and beautiful mineral body. Just wicked! 

1937 - Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Cabinet
Unbelievably fresh and vital, clear and golden in the glass. Fine nose with minimal smoky notes, still a floral note, peach blossom, many fine herbs and spices, clove, slight vanilla.
In perfect harmony with unbelievable elegance on the palate, lively freshness, acidity is concentrated and full of energy, wonderful elegant spiciness. A long lasting finish with a surprisingly fresh citrus and grapefruit style, deep spiciness. No signs of being old. Just unbelievably noble. What an experience!

Kiedrich Turmberg

2017 - Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Erste Lage
Great depth in the nose, precise and tight, slate minerality, slightly smoky, slight passion fruit, kiwi and quince. On the palate great precision, mineralic, apple notes, deep. Sligthly smoky, salty and very spicy finish. A very accessible Turmberg.

2016 - Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Auslese
The 2016 is so perfect already. Such a nice nose - floral, spicy, fruity, on the palate so dense and intense. The beauty of a spicy Auslese is so rar, the minerality almost salty mixing nicely with the fruit elements which are mostly exotic but also stone fruits. Everlasting in the finish! 

2013 - Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling trocken
Herbal and spicy in the nose, basil, lemon grass, citrus peel. On the palate elegant, mouthwatering acidity, well balanced, citrus, grapefruit peel. Finishes with herbs, citrus and salt.

2010 - Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Auslese
The 2010 is a bit different in character than the 2016. More minerality in the nose, spices are mixed with honey flavors, herbal and floral notes are lighter but also very well integrated, on the palate it comes more elegant with beautiful acidity, long lasting with a wicked fruit-honey-minerality mix. A balanced Auslese that we can't stop drinking. 

1937 - Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Natur
Fresh and super inviting nose with notes of dried herbs, mint, fine spiciness, still a deep mineral note, everything wraps up with an exciting vitality that invites you to take a sip.
Dense, oily structure on the palate, stable, full of body, unbelievably fresh and vital, only a slightly smoky note, slightly flinty, yellow apple, rich grapefruit and citrus note. Super long and juicy, rich and fine.

Klosterberg

2017 - Klosterberg Riesling Erste Lage 
Smooth, slightly floral nose with decent minerality, apple, pear, pineapple and nuts. Gentle, elegant on the palate, acidity comes fresh and citrusy. Finishes with lemon and citrus flavors.

Others

2017 - Kiedricher Riesling Trocken
Nose is quite tight, fresh, and surprisingly precise with passion fruit and slate. Greatly fresh, clear, dry Riesling on the palate, crisp, light, not sweet, a dream. Finishes clear and fresh with lots of citrus.