Rödelseer Küchenmeister trocken Riesling

Classic and best one yet. Still a bit wild as this bottle is.

Vintage 2017 | Riesling from Franken, surprisingly smell with flowers, minerals and depth. Good balanced taste | paired with salmon and mussels oven dish

Wow. Super perfumed, herbal, complex and sapid nose. No fruit. So straight. Lush and juicy, opulent and then finished with insane acids and cleansing minerality. So complex and juicy. Pure as the driven snow. Wow the complexity here is crazy. So juicy. Stunning.

Weltner’s sleeper wine. This is always so brilliant. What a nose. Lime pith and rocks. Tons and tons of rocks. Spring air on a mid 60’s day in the Franconian forest. Herbs, some flowers, sprigs of mint. Palate is tactile and intense with serious sap and structure. Great density. Amazing balance and purity. This has structure and guts to age. What a finish. It’s so long. This is more about freshness, minerality and fruit at this young stage. Although if you look there is some apricot there. Very complex and juicy and bone dry. This is a 10+ year wine easy. More notes as it opens which Paul’s wines do better than anybody.

Vintage 2017 / Weltner makes excellent riesling! Extreme pure and razorsharp. / paired with beetrootsalade and smashed potatoes

Intensely flinty mineral nose. Some grapey phenolic notes too. A little rounder in the mouth initially than the nose suggests, but then turns back to the mineral as the palate progresses. Long palate replete with acids and clingy minerals. Very nicely done.

Soaring nose of lemon peel and herbs. Flint and smoke. Very very fragrant right now upon pop and pour. Palate is rich and ripe but with insane energy from the minerality and very good acidity. Lovely lemon zest and lime candy flavors along with citrus and hint of apricots.

Wintergreen, lovely nose, mineral, snap peas, airy, so clean, evergreen, like a stream, so pure and clean, ripe and juicy, deep and complex with lovely purity but big and a bit too big maybe? This was a “one of” wine that fermented much later than the Sylvaner GG and was supposed to be a GG. Interesting.

Intensely mineral and a little angular on the first night, I vacuum sealed it and now, two days later, it’s much softer and rounder. Still outrageously mineral on the nose, it’s got a bit of bitter apple fruit underneath. So intense but balanced in the mouth. Stones, green apples, soft but zesty. This will improve over the next coupla years. Great value.

I just love this wine. Riper nose than 16, but wonderful with yellow plum, grapefruit, ripe peach, herbs and minerals. Lovely and shows a hint of age. Palate is round and fresh with great acidity and freshness. Complex and juicy with more acidity than the nose lets on. Long and very mineral finish but also fruit. Really great.