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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.8 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 21 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 11/28/2023 & rated 97 points: blind, Magnum
One of the best Rieslings from 2017 I know. As always elegant, no yellow stone fruits, saline, precise and a phenomenal density. 97 (1779 views) | | | Tasted by Orange Tsian on 10/14/2023 & rated 95 points: 黄柠檬皮、橘子皮、黄桃、杏脯之类的果味，慢慢还会出现些许菠萝奶昔味，沉稳而有些内敛，薄荷等草本带来沁凉感以及些许杏仁带来的烘烤坚果感增添立体感。口感饱满有力，酸度高企有劲度，结构也比较大，整体的纵深感很好。果味熟，能觉察轻微贵腐感，桃杏果脯、蜜饯柑橘内包笼着酸桃子、柠檬、苹果之类的新鲜果味，后段还有轻微烤板栗的味道，还是个沉睡着的巨物。
到了第三天晚上，整体陡然一变，突出的柚子皮和柠檬皮带出精油感，和月桂叶之类香料混合，感觉变得激烈而活跃起来，形成一个跃起的环，内里营造出澄澈纯净的空间，带有菠萝汁、芒果奶昔、橙花、新鲜薄荷之类的风味，还嵌着矿物丝缕，似乎湖面涟漪倒映景象。口感宽阔渐进，非常精致细腻，光滑而轻微酥麻的萃取感推动着酒液滑行在口中，酸度和酒体都渐强，热情而纯粹，葡萄柚汁、柠檬、菠萝、酸桃、白杏等营造出一个澄澈、宽阔和圆润的空间，出尘，内里演化各种风味，新鲜的香草碎，杏干等作结，余味悠长，令人动容。93-96/100 (1457 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Schneider on 7/14/2023 & rated 95 points: First Breuer Schloßberg for me. This is different but real good. Not as racy as the Nonneberg in the next glas, but a joy to drink. Minerals and acid in balance. There ist more to come here. 95 + (1718 views) | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 12/3/2022 & rated 96 points: not blind, Magnum
I had it a few weeks before from regular bottle and again this a beautiful reluctant Riesling which needs really a lot of time to evolve. But the salinity is impressive. At least 2 decades of drinking period. 95-96 (2422 views) | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 11/6/2022 & rated 96 points: not blind
Lovely Riesling from one of my favourite vintages. THis wine is a sleeping monster. The extract and concentration is unbelievable. Lean, powerful, lemon peel, nearly no fruit but no annoying salinity. Will survive two decades. 96+ (2407 views) | | | Tasted by rcb25 on 5/24/2022: This needs a ton of time and is in an awkward spot at the moment with the ripeness of the vintage dominating the balance of the wine at the moment. A notable sweetness and ripeness on the nose. Lots of tropical notes. Candied pineapple, mirabelle plums, stone fruits, champagne mango. Some savoury, and halfway sweet herbal tones. Powdered ginger, green tea. Weighty and concentrated with a soft, rounder acid profile. Shy on entry, but a noticeable mid palate with extensive salty finish and a phenolic chew. Needs a lot of time to resolve all the elements into focus. Not much change the next day, this wine just needs time to unfurl. AP 01 18
ABV: 12.0%
Closure: natural cork
Decant: N/A
Stem: Zalto Universal (2129 views) | | | Tasted by PatrickO33 on 5/21/2021 & rated 92 points: Freshly cut apples, stones, grass on the nose. Palate already wonderfully balanced, yellow stone fruits, herbs, still fruit-forward. Will be even more complex in a couple of years. (1952 views) | | | Tasted by _Mike_Wine_ on 3/30/2021 & rated 89 points: Winoforum 2021 – Niemcy (On-line): Interesting but a bit closed nose, very fruit-forward with good acidity, nice and pleasant to drink with medium finish (2538 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 2/5/2021 & rated 93 points: Breuer online Tasting with Theresa Breuer: Glass: Zalto Universal
Online tasting. 100ml bottle filled from Magnum bought at release and perfectly stored. Drunk two and three days later.
Clear, pale golden color. Clean, medium- intense, muted nose. Lots of herbal tea. Legally dry, medium+ acidity. Some sweet, ripe fruit, herbs and herbal tea, very mineral. More opulent and round as the Nonnenberg. Very elegant, lots of phenolic and extract, tension. Beautiful balance. Very long. A bit more open than the Nonneberg, but way too young. Waste of potential to drink it now. Wait for 10+ years. 92-93+++ (2647 views) | | | Tasted by JBroll on 8/22/2020 & rated 94 points: Great wine, cool label. Still way too young but what a potential!
You just know this one will be fantastic in 10-20 years from now. Extreme concentration, lots of underlying fruit, some taste of apple pie, lemon peal, lovely acidity, salty, dry and long long lingering aftertaste. Great wine. (2565 views) | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 11/10/2019: Impressions from "Perspektive Wein" fair (Wagenhallen, Stuttgart): *** brief notes for my own memory from tasting sip. No rating ***
Glas: Stölzle white wine
A bit muted nose. Astonishingly open palate, herbaceous, chalky, deep, salty, good tension, fine and balanced. Still lacks the smoky complexity of its elder brothers, but already quite nice. 93++ (3446 views) | | | Tasted by smør on 6/16/2019 & rated 94 points: Lean, precise with great acidity and a beautiful texture. Lemon, green apple, very fresh with an already impressive length. Worth drinking it now in its first drinking window if one has enough bottles. But boy will this one age: this one could turn into a monster in 15years+ (3502 views) | | | Tasted by Anton_Wallin on 4/27/2019 & rated 96 points: Short note
Crazy aromatic and fruit forward. Acidity from heaven (2970 views) | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 3/21/2019 & rated 95 points: Not blind
Not decanted but it shpuld be at least 6 hours. First time in the glas and yes it is compelling. Incredible fine, elegant. Some passionfruit, yuzu and tangerine. Now great and in 20 years a monster. 95(97) (3066 views) | | | Tasted by graemeg on 9/10/2018: Open House at Georg Breuer (Rudesheim): {cork, 12.3%} Pure apples and slate. Shy now, but quality is obvious. The palate tastes much stonier; the fruit is very secondary to the rocks & stones. A geologists delight. It has medium weight, the acid doesn’t stick out by any means, being quite subtle, but there’s great balance & length. Long finish. All about texture just now. And class. (2704 views) |
| Georg Breuer Producer website
Region: Rheingau
City: Rüdesheim am Rhein
Winery Website: www.georg-breuer.com
OVERVIEW
Founded in 1880. From the early 1980s, small holdings in the Berg Schlossberg were expanded by Bernhard and Heinrich Breuer into the present 60-acre Rheingau estate including vineyards on the best steep slopes of Rüdesheim and Rauenthal. During this period the Breuers have ceaselessly pursued terroir-driven non-interventionist winemaking and viticulture, resulting in traditional ageworthy dry wines reminiscent of the legendary Rheingaus produced in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Wines are aged on their lees and clarified traditionally in oak cooperage.
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HISTORY
Georg Breuer was founded in 1880 by Peter Breuer, partner of the venerable German wine shipping firm Scholl & Hillebrand, thereafter owned by Peter's son Georg and then grandsons Bernhard and Heinrich upon Georg's passing in 1978. The shipping firm was sold and during the 1980's and 1990's Bernhard and Heinrich carefully expanded the vineyard estate from 20 acres to its present 60 acres in the steepest, most well-drained vineyards of the Rheingau communes of Rüdesheim and Rauenthal. Co-author of authoritative books on Germany's wine regions and credited to a great degree with restoring Riesling's respectability in world markets, Bernhard Breuer was highly regarded internationally and worked tirelessly in defense of German viticultural integrity. From 2004, Theresa Breuer, Heinrich Breuer and winemaker Hermann Schmoranz carry on Bernhard's ideals in his memory. Production at Breuer follows a strict terroir-based hierarchy for the production of naturally dry wines made from healthy, ripe Riesling grapes, featuring Breuer's flagship crus Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg (artist series dating from 1980) and the 12.5-acre monopole Rauenthal Nonnenberg. A superb proprietary wine called Terra Montosa fills a secondary level. Its Latin name honoring the steep mountain slopes, Montosa is a complex interplay of wines from the Rüdesheimer Berg's slate/quartzite terraces and Rauenthal's loam and gravel soils. Finally, an excellent regional Rheingau Riesling, "GB Charm," offers great value in the inimitable, elegant Breuer style. Rare and glorious sweet wines are also made at Breuer when natural conditions permit the development of clean botrytis. Breuer wines are characterized by precise balance of flavor extract and rassig (racy) aromatic elegance from slate soils, achieved through disciplined harvesting and minuscule yields. Natural clarification results from fermentation and less contact in oak ovals. Breuer Rieslings are universal (yes, Classical) and meant for the serious table. They are ageworthy, investment-quality wines of the highest order, regarded with considerable awe by the international trade and press. Bernhard expressed it best: "At Georg Breuer low-tech is the theme in both the vineyard and the cellar, as we reverted to natural wines made in the traditional manner. A great majority of wines with a dry finish is the logical result, although such wines can only come from the best sites giving the highest levels of concentration and mineral extract from healthy grapes, since there will be no residual sugar to camouflage thinness. A great naturally-fermented wine is in itself a demonstration of the pedigree of its source, and the vineyard sites capable of producing such wines have been perfectly known to the vintners for centuries." - Bernhard Breuer, May 2000
Riesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Rüdesheimer Berg Schloßberg on weinlagen.infoGermany Wines of Germany | The Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (VDP) | How to read a German wine label | Geographical Information Down to Single Vineyards
#2014 Vintage Notes:
2014 Vintage Report by Terry Theise
2014 Vintage Report by Wine Spectator
"My gut still tells me the Saar (and to some extent) the Ruwer are better overall in 2014 than the more storied areas of the Mosel proper, but those that spent the requisite time living in their middle-Mosel vineyards made some of the most electric and "feathery" Riesling in a long time (maybe the finest in 20 years - yes, it's true!)" - Jon Rimmerman (Of course only a very short historical memory would call the Saar and Ruwer less 'storied' than the middle Mosel - jht)Rheingau VDP Rheingau (Official site) | The Rheingau (Wines of Germany) | Wikipedia about The Rheingau
On weinlagen.info
The small but fine wine-growing area Rheingau offers one for the culture of the vine ideal microclimate and best soil conditions. The Rhine runs uninterruptedly almost one thousand kilometres from Basel up to its muzzle into the North Sea, in a northerly direction. With a short exception - the Rheingau. The Rheingau mountains force the river to a change in direction here. The vineyards falling in this region to the south stretch really to the sun. The king of the white wines, the Riesling, finds ideal local conditions for the unfolding of his fine fruity and elegant type of vine character on the multilayered weathering grounds with loess, loam and sand additions. |
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