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| Drinking window: Drink between 2025 and 2037 (based on 15 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Bastiaan Jore on 7/26/2023 & rated 85 points: Mooi geconcentreerde smaak met veel leisteen, rook, groene appel met hints van sellerie. Heeft nog veel zuurstof nodig. (297 views) | | | Tasted by pmik on 4/28/2023 & rated 91 points: 91+ medium acidity. Full body. Tasted at RheinWelt Rüdesheim (472 views) | | | Tasted by Mahatma Chianti on 7/7/2022 & rated 92 points: Very reductive, with lots of flintstone, smoke and apple, celery and quince... Needs a lot of air, comes with some CO2. Drank it over 5 days, which was still not patient enough. Started with Gabriel Glas Gold Edition but ended up with Stoelzle Quatrophil Burgundy, which i usually use for more aged Riesling. Pretty complex, evolving even some light red berries (raspberry), good tension, medium body, very mineral, very deep, very long. Excellent QPR. 92+ (598 views) |
| By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (8/30/2021)
(Schloss Vollrads Riesling Rheingau Schlossberg GG, Germany) Subscribe to see review text. | By Michael Schmidt
JancisRobinson.com (8/30/2021)
(Schloss Vollrads, Schloss Vollrads Schlossberg Riesling Grosses Gewächs Rheingau White) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Schloss Vollrads Producer website
The Wine Estate
Schloss Vollrads is one of the oldest Wine Estates in the world. Wine sales have been documented as early as 1211 and ever since.
We are solely focused on producing Riesling wines on our vineyard surface, which totals 148 acres.
It is our goal to produce Rieslings of highest quality which exhibit the individuality and complexity of the Riesling grape as well as the authentic characteristics of our soil. Our tradition is commitment as well as challenge. This passion for quality is shared by each member of Schloss Vollrads, from the vineyard, to the cellar, to the Vinothek.
Decoding Legacy Capsule Colors: Like Schloss Johannisberg, Schloss Vollrads has used capsule colors to identify wines, well beyond the 'Goldkap' signalling system. The Modern Wine Encyclopedia by Hugh Johnson, 1983 Ed., p. 252. states: "Different qualities of the estate's wines are distinguished by an elaborate system of colored capsules: green for QbA, blue for Kabinett, pink for Spätlese, white for Auslese, gold for Beerenauslese, and Trockenbeerenauslese, with a code of silver bands for dry wines and gold for sweeter wines." Since about 2001, no capsules have been used on Schloss Vollrads, and sweeter wines have been extremely rare. jhtRiesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Großes Gewächs German wine classification
All about Grosses Gewächs (German)Schlossberggrand cru singel vineyard near Kientzheim. position on weinlagen.info
In WagramGermany 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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