2021 Weingut Robert Weil Kiedricher Turmberg Riesling Trocken

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  3/13/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 90 Points

  During a walkabout tasting, no detailed notes. Fresh and light, stone fruit, minerals.

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  9/23/2023 - godx wrote: 92 Points

  A bit shy on the nose but much more open on the palate. This wine showed the strength of the 2021 vintage…super classic but needs quite a bit of time. Tons of acidity here. Really enjoyed this and see a lot of upside in 5-10+ years.

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  8/5/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What is wrong with the CT drinking community? How can you all be such a bunch of unmitigated lazy genitalia? Where are the reviews of this wine? Drink damn you and write; write drunk even, but write, curse you!
  
  By nature, I am a heavy cavalryman and we go into battle once the field is known. We don't like being first on the scene and doing the scouting; that is for those ne'er do well hussar types, on their puny prancing mounts. Still, here we are, so 'head's down gentlemen and let's charge in!'
  
  By now my questions about the 2021 Riesling vintage will be known. It makes me nervous, because it is not the consensus view. I don't say it is a bad vintage at all, I just am not enamored of the somewhat sour and green apple aspects I detect in almost all the 2021 German Rieslings that I have tried. It would be fair to ask if I am being overly sensitive to this aspect and I think a lot of people will be entirely untroubled by what I am noting. How I would like some of the CT tribe to have gone in ahead, like good hussars, to scout the ground and give some views on what they see.
  
  My take on the 2021's is most strongly felt by me in the drier styles (Kabinett and/or Trocken). This one has a better balance than most and there is some of that trademark richness. As so often with Weil, I get lemon sherbet (a powdery, sweet/sour lemon flavoured confectionary made in Oz, that fizzes a little on the tongue) and some glorious stone fruits. The acid is almost Australian, but even the Oz makers who are starting to make more Germanic styles (Dr Edge for example) are not making wine with fruit and structure like this (yet).
  
  Length and intensity are excellent.
  
  I suspect that the Spätlese styles from Weil might be really outstanding from this vintage, as the extra acid may create some sensational tension against the higher level of residual sugar. Hither and yon, we ride.
  
  Gentlemen, mount up, it is off to seize the Weil Keidrich Grafenberg Spätlese from those Austrian and Prussian swine who think they have rights there. Cut them down! Trample their cockchafers! Bugger their horses and ride their daughters!

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  6/28/2023 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  10th MW Symposium, Wiesbaden - The day before (Weingut Robert Weil): 13%, 5.3gr rs, 7.6 gr acid, up to 70% inclination, slate, monopole, 3.8ha, Erste Lage
  Dry, spicy, fresh, green apple, citrus, stony, grapefruit, a bit more reserved
  Palate with dry, stony, mineral notes, high acidity, tart, med body, green notes, long finish with an underlying sweet note that offers some roundness

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