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The Society's Exhibition Rheingau Riesling 2020
Rheingau rieslings were popular in Victorian times and early Society Lists featured several. We asked leading producer Gunter Künstler to provide a modern take on this German classic. The clean lines and lovely length of flavour are a must with south-east Asian cuisine.
Price:
£14.50
Bottle
Price:
£174.00
Case of 12
In Stock
Code: GE15921
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Riesling
- 75cl
- Drinking now
- 12.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Screwcap
- 100ml of this wine contains 77 kcal
- The bottle contains 9.4 units of alcohol
- A 125ml glass of this wine contains 96 kcal and 1.6 units of alcohol
The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units per week. For information and support on responsible drinking please see www.drinkaware.co.uk. For more information about how calories in wine are measured, click here.
Künstler
Gunther Künstler had big shoes to fill when he took over from his father Franz in 1992. Franz, whose family had owned vineyards in Moravia, Czechoslovakia for three centuries before expropriation and exile at the end of the Second World War, was an influential winemaker and one of Germany’s best of the post-war period. After more than a decade as winemaker at the famous Domdechant Werner estate he established his own vineyards and winery in 1965, the latter in the famous town of Hochheim-am-Main, where he proceeded to accumulate small parcels of vines on excellent sites, and very quickly established a superb reputation for the quality of his wines. Fortunately Gunther has been more than capable of meeting the challenge and many would argue that Künstler is the top estate in Hochheim. From their seven hectares of vineyards at eight sites around Hochheim they produce exhilarating dry and sweet wines from riesling, and have recently acquired four parcels further along the river at Rudesheim.
Winemaking is a marriage of the traditional and the modern, where technological support is readily used but does not overshadow the sensitivity of the winemaker, in this case Gunther, and all the years of experience he has under his belt. Ultimately Gunther makes no bones about wanting his wines to display poise and harmony, a sure sense of terroir and great potential for ageing. The riesling grapes are hand harvested and destalked before cooling, and then the musts are put into stainless...
Sunday Express
Read moreMade for The Wine Society by leading producer Gunter Küstler, this is dry, lively and intense with nice spice-laden citrus fruit, and stony, mineral notes. Bold and vivid, with a nice weight and focus...