Weingut Battenfeld-Spanier
Kirchenstück Riesling
Rheinhessen, Germany
18’s from Battenfeld are just insane. Best vintage ever. Yeasty and intense nose. So deep and so much aromatic flavor. Intense herbals and so so deep. Earth. Mineral stank. Deep ocean like. The most perfect raw honey ever. Ocean air. Amazing. New nuances every 30 seconds. It’s got lanolin, melon and just so much complexity it can’t be called stable as it’s always changing. What a nose. 9.6 off the bat for the nose. Palate is dense but so lithe and has amazing inner mouth aromas where the minerality just guts your mouth. So precise, insanely fresh and so so refined. Has that playful Kirchenstuck quality but is also so much serious since it turned a corner in 13 and 12. It’s so juicy and the length is just insane. So pure. So clean. So long. This is regal and aristocratic. The young prince has grown up to be a King! Extraordinary mid palate and then squeezes so much juicy fruit on the palate. Then the minerality cleans it all up. A magnificent wine. Stunning. 9.6 but damn this is close to 9.7.
18’s from Battenfeld are just insane. Best vintage ever. Yeasty and intense nose. So deep and so much aromatic flavor. Intense herbals and so so deep. Earth. Mineral stank. Deep ocean like. The most perfect raw honey ever. Ocean air. Amazing. New nuances every 30 seconds. It’s got lanolin, melon and just so much complexity it can’t be called stable as it’s always changing. What a nose. 9.6 off the bat for the nose. Palate is dense but so lithe and has amazing inner mouth aromas where the minerality just guts your mouth. So precise, insanely fresh and so so refined. Has that playful Kirchenstuck quality but is also so much serious since it turned a corner in 13 and 12. It’s so juicy and the length is just insane. So pure. So clean. So long. This is regal and aristocratic. The young prince has grown up to be a King! Extraordinary mid palate and then squeezes so much juicy fruit on the palate. Then the minerality cleans it all up. A magnificent wine. Stunning. 9.6 but damn this is close to 9.7.
Feb 25th, 2020
Could smell this out of the bottle directly after popping the cork! Lemon, petrol, smoke and crushed stones. Palatte was all about minerality for me with light tones of ripe melon. Salty finish with perfectly balanced acidity. Cracking wine
Could smell this out of the bottle directly after popping the cork! Lemon, petrol, smoke and crushed stones. Palatte was all about minerality for me with light tones of ripe melon. Salty finish with perfectly balanced acidity. Cracking wine
Jun 19th, 2022
Wow. Just perfect. Amazing off the bat.
Nose: slate made form yellow flowers. As this opens more serious.
Palate: simply perfect. That balance you get only in great wines. The density you only get in grand cru wines. Terrific brightness. Multi spectral inner mouth aromatics. Infinite almost. Sorry. Balance is perfect. If this had a bit more florality on the internal aromatics it would be a 10. It’s that good.
As I enter my senescence I am trying to be tactful Otherwise I would say you are an idiot if you not drinking grosses gewachs. This was like $50. Worth $200. At least.
Bought from fass selections
Wow. Just perfect. Amazing off the bat.
Nose: slate made form yellow flowers. As this opens more serious.
Palate: simply perfect. That balance you get only in great wines. The density you only get in grand cru wines. Terrific brightness. Multi spectral inner mouth aromatics. Infinite almost. Sorry. Balance is perfect. If this had a bit more florality on the internal aromatics it would be a 10. It’s that good.
As I enter my senescence I am trying to be tactful Otherwise I would say you are an idiot if you not drinking grosses gewachs. This was like $50. Worth $200. At least.
Bought from fass selections