2019 Weingut Robert Weil Riesling halbtrocken

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 87 points

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  10/5/2021 - fhayek wrote: 87 Points

  If one had to chose *one* king of Rheingau, most would probably say it's Robert Weil. His prices are accordingly somewhere between high and shameless.
  
  Therefore I have avoided his wines for long but now I was lulled into investing 15 good Euros to purchase a bottle of his basic off-dry wine.
  That's the category that usually costs 10 EUR with fairly good names and 12 EUR with really good names in Rheingau.
  
  Would the quality be better? Spoiler: not really.
  
  The wine appears quite consciously made though, it tries to please everyone. Contains a lot of acidity but higher-than average body to counterpoint it; fair amount of mid-ripe fruit - stylistically in between the typical reductive fruit bomb and the stuffy-heavy Künstler way; perhaps a bit closer to the latter, but it stops short of being lame.
  
  It is missing structure or sophistication though, and, frankly, passion.
  Which is understandable when someone can produce wine that's being sold for hundreds of Euros.
  
  Still: while the wine is completely OK, and at times even a bit of fun; the 50% one pays on top of the normal price in this category is purely for the name; there is no difference in quality for me.
  
  ---- Update----
  To its credit, it held up remarkably well even after 4 days in the fridge. In fact it got even a bit more homogeneous and focussed, therefore I'm upgrading this from 86p to 87p. Doesn't change the rather weak QPR assessment though.

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