2005 Weingut Robert Weil Kiedricher Gräfenberg Riesling Trocken Erstes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  9/24/2023 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Weil Gräfenberg vertical 2003-2013 (Restaurant 360 Grad, Limburg/Lahn): Popped and poured. Clear, youthful medium golden color. Smoky, dense and fine nose, really beautiful. An enhanced version of 2005. Warm ripe fruit, very mineral, good energy, clear, focused, long. 92-93

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  10/17/2022 - grapenomad wrote: 94 Points

  You know there's gonna be trouble when the first wine that comes out at a dinner table is a 2005 EG Riesling. And nothing less than Weil's
  Kiedrich Gräfenberg, the estate’s top vineyard which is among the finest sites in the Rheingau. Paired with Andrew Lobster at Yang Ming, I was in heaven. One thing I love about Rizza (besides the celestial taste, of course) is how much this grape brings out the mathematics too. No other single grape gets so much pH, acid grams, residual sugar, alcohol percentage numerical attention. Fun times.
  
  Deep, luminous golden color. Rich, sweet-toned nose that is very true to the variety with layered aromas of honey, some petrol, a little bit of stony minerality. Broad, oily and dry-ish in the mouth with intense flavors of ripe pineapple, dank herbal streaks and juicy stone fruit. A rather big, concentrated and substantial Riesling with quite a bit of power and ripeness, yet not too much - the wine never comes across as heavy, flabby or lacking freshness. Oh so good, wish I had a jeroboam.

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  7/30/2022 - dougsmith Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Light lemon color. Nose of ripe apple and strawberry, with a Riesling caraway note. Silky on the palate with excellent presence and balance, just a hint of sweetness to the finish in this dry white. Lovely.

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  9/10/2020 - cfk49 wrote: 93 Points

  At fifteen years, this wine is now beginning to come into its own. Crumbly cork one so often finds in German wines with some age -- arrgh! Fairly closed on the nose. Silky texture, medium-weight, some spice, yellow fruits, excellent depth. No rush to drink. Cellared since original release.

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  9/7/2019 - gnosis2 Likes this wine:

  Similar to some notes, this is light eyed, very light straw like day one. Nose is fresh not old, muted, some fruit, some wax maybe, it gains intensity. The Attack is no acid really, light, lithe on the palette, some fruit, some tang, some salinity. Intense with time.
  LONG length, wow, more hint of fruit, swiss cheese type nuttiness (very sublte), but no sugary, only hint of sweetness.
  Amazing concentration of aromas, length; round, supple, can at times be more like aged white burgundy. Then Riesling notes kick in. Very Good.

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