Keller Riesling Horizontale 2015

Dieses Paket enthält je eine Flasche Keller Hubacker, Kirchspiel und Abts E aus dem Jahr 2015.

Jancis Robinson (Abts E): The nose of the AbtsE(rde) offers a fascinating composition of almost perfumed fruit and earthy minerality. If my gustatory facilities did not deceive me, the AbtsE is a little softer and sweeter than its stable mates, even dabbling in exotic territory with a fresh notion of passion fruit. Ripe gooseberry and stony apricot complete the fruit flavour. At the same time the wine never loses grip and finishes on an intriguing combination of flint stone, kernel and the merest notion of crushed coffee beans. (19/20, 2016)

Jancis Robinson (Hubacker): The glorious summer of 2015 led to high expectations among the wine-writing fraternity, and many a Grosses Gewächs showed eager to meet this anticipation with seduction by noticeable residual sugar. The Hubacker reflects the ripeness of the vintage with an attractive fragrance of lanolin, beeswax and floral aromas, but the palate does not bow to the temptation of luscious opulence and sweetness, rather it almost contrarily exhibits notes of crisp green fruit, subtle phenolic astringency and animating acidity. A firm structure will keep this wine in good shape for many years to come. (18.5+/20, 2019)

Jancis Robinson (Kirchspiel): The combination of passion fruit and mint is enough to send lovers of ice cream into ecstasy, but it finds an even higher echelon of expression in the fragrance of Keller’s Kirchspiel. With gooseberry, mango and passion fruit there’s an abundance of fruit, but it is presented with finesse against a subtle backdrop of fresh, green herbs and chalky minerality. Rich texture and mouth-filling flavour reflect the generosity of the vintage, but any opulent exuberance is expertly reined in by a firm, tactile grip of mineral and phenolic components on the finish. (19/20, 2016)