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Maximiner Grünhauser Herrenberg Riesling Grosses Gewächs 2021
Rapier-like dry riesling that is impeccable, pure and very long, and a wine that will gain in complexity over the years. Complex flavours involve apple and crunchy yellow plum.
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Code: GE15421
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 1 - Bone dry
- Riesling
- 2024 to 2035
- 12% Alcohol
- bouquet/flavour marked by oak
- Cork, natural
Carl von Schubert (Maximin Grünhaus)
Situated on the left bank of the Ruwer river, around two kilometres from where it meets the Mosel, the von Schubert estate is steeped in history, with archaeological artefacts suggesting that wine has been made here since the Roman times. However, it is more notably influenced by the order of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Saint Maximin in Trier, who owned it from the 10th to 18th century. Like its current owner – Dr Carl von Schubert, whose family bought it in the 19th century and has lived here ever since – the monks cultivated the vines in three distinct but contiguous vineyards, Abstberg, Herrenberg and Bruderberg.
The best of these is thought to be Abstberg, so called because its wines were served exclusively to the Abbot (or ‘Abt’), whereas Herrenberg was reserved for the monks and Bruderberg for the lay brothers. Although Bruderberg has historically been the least favoured of the vineyards, climate change has played its part, and some feel it will soon be the best of the three.
Abstberg’s 14 hectares are on south-east to south-west-facing slopes of blue Devonian slate, and its wines tend to have racy acidity, subtle minerality, great delicacy and impressive ageing potential. The 19-hectare Herrenberg vineyard benefits from deeper soils of reddish slate, with better water storage capacity, although it is less warm than Abstberg and produces more full-bodied, supple and fruity wines.
94% of the estate’s production is given to riesling, with tiny amounts of pinot...