Pale yellow. Aromas of lemon, pear, peach, orange blossom and a hint of petrol. Light, dry mouthfeel. Apple acids and cidery bitterness. Palate of cider, grapefruit, apricot, acacia blossom, peach stone and flint. A fruit-driven and perfumed wine with pure yellow stone fruit, flowery aromas and a finish with perfectly pitched acidity. Drink within 4-6 years. Tasted alongside Gustave Lorentz, Riesling, Altenberg, Vielles vignes, 2017 and the matched wine is generous and complex and has more petrol notes, but not as pure acidity.
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Lots of things going on. Tropical fruit, bread, green apple, lemon. Quite full almost dense mouthfeel. High acidity (but medium for a Riesling), not piercing.
Good but not what i’d thought. More fruitpunch than icy lemon.
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Didn't stand up to the 2020 vintage tasted next to it. More apparent sweetness here; surely to balance the higher acidity level. More muted aromas and not the same texture.
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Quite. ice vintage of this wine. Very bright with lots of citrus, some minerals, a slightly smokey note, turmeric, and peach. High acidity and good finish. Very young and best with food at this stage, but will sure improve and gain complexity with age. 92+
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Very delicious wine. Stone fruit, lime zest, petroleum and apples. Very clean nose. Super mouthfeel with high acidity and great length on the palate. Very vibrant wine. Wait 5 more years tho.
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Not the most expressive vintage of Von Der Fels, but it’s still pleasant with kiwi, petrol, and lime zest. Fresh and charming but not as stern or heavy hitting as other recent vintages. As always, it will improve in bottle.
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PnP'ed at home, whilst watching the Sinner-Tsitsipas Nitto-finals match-up. Tropical-fruits bouquet, with apples, peaches, lemons & a tinge of kerosene. Mineral mouthfeel, with good concentration/depth culminating in a long finish. Just delicious!
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2/8. 12.5% abv. AP 10. Immediately it brings an aroma of serrated, mineral spine. The drink is slightly more tender than the smell suggests. Dry, chewy, acrobatic. A proper rate of depletion might involve some 2-3 year gaps this decade. Aim for drinking most of it 2029-2039. (Who am I kidding.) 94 points. __________ Last night the drinking order went 1) Sancerre, 2) Riesling, 3) Cahors. Tonight it's reversed. And while the Cahors grew four points, it had more max headroom to begin with. Today this Riesling is raining sticky orbs of yellow/rose colored sunshine. Notice its durability in time after a drink flushes. It's big. The acidity will wear like a circulated coin, leaving an expansion of glycerin and fat. Its deep reservoir of scent and flavor will certainly gain expression in the process. This is delicious, and I can rationalize waiting a few years before opening another bottle.
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I have been fortunate to have betting the VdF since the 2016 vintage. I have enjoyed every vintage but this 2021 seems the most complete in the vintage range. While still having that playful aspect it typically shows in the early going, there is just a tremendous amount of material just waiting to unfold in time. My advise is if you have > 3, crack one now - lots to enjoy here. Otherwise, hold for 5 + to see this baby develop.
OK, I’m impressed. Nicely aromatic featuring ripe apple, sea salt, and lime zest. Tense vibrant nearly sharp citric flavors quickly attack with impressive intensity. Clean, tart, lime and apples with lovely wet stone minerals. Long fresh slate stone finish that really impresses with its bite. For about $50, this crushes for the quality and ageablitly. Very well crafted. Can see this gaining another point with more time to settle its energetic backbone.
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Feels like it’s closed up a little since I last had it, took about an hour or so to open and show the stone fruits, subtle lemon peel, a pebble mineral, a touch spritz to start on the mouthfeel but lots of energy and intensity on the mid palate on, high acidity, beautifully balanced and a long finish
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Tight at first, with a slight spritz feel. Opens up with air. Lime, jasmine, tree fruit, rocks, acid, silky extract, quite dense. Finishes long and salty.
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Endlessly complex, but simultaneously precise and pure. Lemon blossom, rind, mineral backed acidity, and stone fruit finish. Not getting the apple others mentioned. While the acidity is high, I wouldn’t say it is overbearing.
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Keller & Haart tasting (Concept Riesling, Düsseldorf, Germany): We had this as an aperitif, but seeing it as just that doesn't do this wine justice. Mainly Granny Smith and citrus for now, with plenty of minerality and insane acidity. With some more age this could really rival some GGs I think.
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Lime blossom, flint, mineral, dry extract, searing acid, lots of material here. Calms down and a bit more open on night #2, but this definitely could use some time sideways
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finish is ridiculous. exceptionally good and for my tastes, drinking well/open currently. (was thinking my earlier note was swayed by being out somewhere nice, so I bought a couple of bottles to try at home)
I'd love to taste this when it is a bit older, because it was just way too young now. Apples, minerality, lemon and lime, but some bitterness on the finish that needs resolving. Score is for current drinking.
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[Drank alongside 2021 JJ Prum Kabinett and 2021 Falkenstein Spatlese Trocken] PnP, served chilled. Slightly reductive nose. Steely, lots of minerality, like licking wet rocks, some lean stone fruit and citrus peel, fairly simple but still a very pleasant Riesling. Quite dry, did not taste much RS, med/med+ finish, extremely racy acid that sticks with you. I was still getting shivers from the acid 15 seconds later! Really electrifying! This thing can go much longer, but fun to try now. 92-94 potential
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Purchased at Spring and had half the bottle to finish the following day. Apple, lemon, stone, mineral. Tons of acidity on the back end. Probably my favorite ever dry Riesling, even if it’s way too young. Tina really liked this as well. Paid $89 at the restaurant.
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1/8. 12.5% abv. AP 10. From a bottle that took over 24 hours to drink. A vast mesa of bitter calcium and iron stone. Impenetrably dense with busy, hissing energy. A remarkably lofted texture considering its flavor horsepower. Cassis. Lime. Strawberry thorn. Ruthlessly attenuated—desiccation in action. Juniper. Bay leaf. Pitch. Framboise. Ruby grapefruit. Oyster. A massive and thoroughly sublimated payload of polysaccharide. Voiceless mineral grip seizes the finish. A knowingly premature bottle.
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This is a wine that I am always very excited for, when the new vintage is released. It is the not so well kept secret that it is basically a declassified GG, but I believe that the 2021 has a majority of Kirchspiel fruit. I opened this wine a few hours before enjoying and let it slow-o to gently open. It was obviously young, but showed a level of delicacy and balance that was particularly striking. There were moments reminded me of drinking from a mineral spring and then others had flashes of the energy and intensity of fresh lemons full of acid and grip. Overall I feel the beauty on the 2021 is in the purity and elegance that was utterly mesmerizing. Mouthwatering notes of salty lemon, Gala apples, and candied lime followed by beautiful aromatics of mint and perfumed orchard fruits. The wonderful mineral vein that rain through this wine was chalky and added such depth to a wine that already had so much to say. This wine speaks to the delicate balance that is the magic of Keller. There is power for sure, but there is also so much nuance, class, and a clear expression of the wonderful vineyards which the wines come from.
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Not as austere as previous vintages, with a bit more obvious fruit up front. Still, this is defined more by its superb acidity and minerality. Very much GG in quality. The next day this showed more apple and pear fruit with a nice bitter pithy note on the finish. Could use a bit more length, however.
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Terrific fruit intensity, and wine for that matter. As I consumed the bottle over several night I had the chance to try it with different food and what really surprised me was how well it handled spicy thai noodles (!), I would normally expect that a bit of RS would be required, but the fruit intensity somehow balanced out the spices.
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Jap, this is very good and 90 maybe to low. This is pure fun but on such a high level and very subtlety made. Crisp I read, and I say yes, it is. I am happy this is really affordable and also delicious. Something you can not say about many Keller wines - financially spoken. Even though I like them all.
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This is a lot more approachable than other vintages of this wine at this stage, great riesling, very balanced, some fruit and a lot of minerality and salinity
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Very nice "von der Fels"! The '19 and '20 were not on the level of the '18, but this one here fires in all cylinders! Great stuff but will wait at least 5 years for the next bottle.
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My first bottle from the new vintage, all new but the appearance is as always! Stunning ELECTRIC and salty! The problem with KPK today is: no subsequent delivery for anyone, really no chance to order more!
A reference for dry Riesling middle class+! Even better than a lot of GG from other producers! Too young, wait at least 5(+) years, *(**-****), around 91-93 potential
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4/13/2024 - Araldinho Likes this wine: 89 Points
Pale yellow.
Aromas of lemon, pear, peach, orange blossom and a hint of petrol.
Light, dry mouthfeel. Apple acids and cidery bitterness.
Palate of cider, grapefruit, apricot, acacia blossom, peach stone and flint.
A fruit-driven and perfumed wine with pure yellow stone fruit, flowery aromas and a finish with perfectly pitched acidity. Drink within 4-6 years.
Tasted alongside Gustave Lorentz, Riesling, Altenberg, Vielles vignes, 2017 and the matched wine is generous and complex and has more petrol notes, but not as pure acidity.
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4/12/2024 - KNNOngQW Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tastes sweet?! But it's a trocken!
Tropical fruits, there's some citrusy notes, almost passionfruit
Good acidity
Not much petrol which i expected. Perfect for me.
Intense on the mouth and nose. This is a very good bottle. Reflective of its pedigree.
Needs to be drunk cold
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3/29/2024 - Eliasli wrote: 92 Points
Lots of things going on. Tropical fruit, bread, green apple, lemon. Quite full almost dense mouthfeel. High acidity (but medium for a Riesling), not piercing.
Good but not what i’d thought. More fruitpunch than icy lemon.
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2/23/2024 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 89 Points
Didn't stand up to the 2020 vintage tasted next to it.
More apparent sweetness here; surely to balance the higher acidity level.
More muted aromas and not the same texture.
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2/1/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 Points
Quite. ice vintage of this wine. Very bright with lots of citrus, some minerals, a slightly smokey note, turmeric, and peach. High acidity and good finish. Very young and best with food at this stage, but will sure improve and gain complexity with age. 92+
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1/4/2024 - varun01 wrote: 92 Points
Very impressive at this level and cost. Bright acidity, apple, lime zest and balanced TDN. Great persistence and impact.
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11/30/2023 - Philolesen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very delicious wine. Stone fruit, lime zest, petroleum and apples. Very clean nose. Super mouthfeel with high acidity and great length on the palate. Very vibrant wine.
Wait 5 more years tho.
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11/25/2023 - jviz wrote: 91 Points
Not the most expressive vintage of Von Der Fels, but it’s still pleasant with kiwi, petrol, and lime zest. Fresh and charming but not as stern or heavy hitting as other recent vintages. As always, it will improve in bottle.
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11/12/2023 - etyc Likes this wine:
PnP'ed at home, whilst watching the Sinner-Tsitsipas Nitto-finals match-up. Tropical-fruits bouquet, with apples, peaches, lemons & a tinge of kerosene. Mineral mouthfeel, with good concentration/depth culminating in a long finish. Just delicious!
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10/22/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 Points
2/8. 12.5% abv. AP 10. Immediately it brings an aroma of serrated, mineral spine. The drink is slightly more tender than the smell suggests. Dry, chewy, acrobatic. A proper rate of depletion might involve some 2-3 year gaps this decade. Aim for drinking most of it 2029-2039. (Who am I kidding.) 94 points.
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Last night the drinking order went 1) Sancerre, 2) Riesling, 3) Cahors. Tonight it's reversed. And while the Cahors grew four points, it had more max headroom to begin with. Today this Riesling is raining sticky orbs of yellow/rose colored sunshine. Notice its durability in time after a drink flushes. It's big. The acidity will wear like a circulated coin, leaving an expansion of glycerin and fat. Its deep reservoir of scent and flavor will certainly gain expression in the process. This is delicious, and I can rationalize waiting a few years before opening another bottle.
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10/18/2023 - Dale M wrote: 93 Points
I have been fortunate to have betting the VdF since the 2016 vintage. I have enjoyed every vintage but this 2021 seems the most complete in the vintage range. While still having that playful aspect it typically shows in the early going, there is just a tremendous amount of material just waiting to unfold in time. My advise is if you have > 3, crack one now - lots to enjoy here. Otherwise, hold for 5 + to see this baby develop.
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8/24/2023 - Jozefs wrote: 92 Points
Youngish... better to wait a few months.
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8/13/2023 - eoinhharkins wrote: 93 Points
Insanely delicious lots of lime, lemon, minerals on the nose, really generous mouthfeel with high acidity and a really long finish. I love this wine
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7/18/2023 - KenK Likes this wine: 92 Points
OK, I’m impressed. Nicely aromatic featuring ripe apple, sea salt, and lime zest. Tense vibrant nearly sharp citric flavors quickly attack with impressive intensity. Clean, tart, lime and apples with lovely wet stone minerals. Long fresh slate stone finish that really impresses with its bite. For about $50, this crushes for the quality and ageablitly. Very well crafted. Can see this gaining another point with more time to settle its energetic backbone.
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7/1/2023 - eoinhharkins Likes this wine: 92 Points
Feels like it’s closed up a little since I last had it, took about an hour or so to open and show the stone fruits, subtle lemon peel, a pebble mineral, a touch spritz to start on the mouthfeel but lots of energy and intensity on the mid palate on, high acidity, beautifully balanced and a long finish
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5/20/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow. Stone fruit, lemon, verbena. Surprisingly good amplitude, excellent acidity and stone.
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5/14/2023 - coremill wrote: 91 Points
Tight at first, with a slight spritz feel. Opens up with air. Lime, jasmine, tree fruit, rocks, acid, silky extract, quite dense. Finishes long and salty.
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3/26/2023 - Pearcebarr Likes this wine: 92 Points
Endlessly complex, but simultaneously precise and pure. Lemon blossom, rind, mineral backed acidity, and stone fruit finish. Not getting the apple others mentioned. While the acidity is high, I wouldn’t say it is overbearing.
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1/28/2023 - Quinn05 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Keller & Haart tasting (Concept Riesling, Düsseldorf, Germany): We had this as an aperitif, but seeing it as just that doesn't do this wine justice. Mainly Granny Smith and citrus for now, with plenty of minerality and insane acidity. With some more age this could really rival some GGs I think.
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1/22/2023 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 93 Points
Lime blossom, flint, mineral, dry extract, searing acid, lots of material here. Calms down and a bit more open on night #2, but this definitely could use some time sideways
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1/19/2023 - FiggySmalls Likes this wine:
finish is ridiculous. exceptionally good and for my tastes, drinking well/open currently. (was thinking my earlier note was swayed by being out somewhere nice, so I bought a couple of bottles to try at home)
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12/11/2022 - Peter Spijker wrote: 90 Points
I'd love to taste this when it is a bit older, because it was just way too young now. Apples, minerality, lemon and lime, but some bitterness on the finish that needs resolving. Score is for current drinking.
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12/9/2022 - Michael Hung Likes this wine: 91 Points
[Drank alongside 2021 JJ Prum Kabinett and 2021 Falkenstein Spatlese Trocken]
PnP, served chilled. Slightly reductive nose. Steely, lots of minerality, like licking wet rocks, some lean stone fruit and citrus peel, fairly simple but still a very pleasant Riesling. Quite dry, did not taste much RS, med/med+ finish, extremely racy acid that sticks with you. I was still getting shivers from the acid 15 seconds later! Really electrifying! This thing can go much longer, but fun to try now. 92-94 potential
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11/13/2022 - schultzi22 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Purchased at Spring and had half the bottle to finish the following day. Apple, lemon, stone, mineral. Tons of acidity on the back end. Probably my favorite ever dry Riesling, even if it’s way too young. Tina really liked this as well. Paid $89 at the restaurant.
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11/5/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 Points
1/8. 12.5% abv. AP 10. From a bottle that took over 24 hours to drink. A vast mesa of bitter calcium and iron stone. Impenetrably dense with busy, hissing energy. A remarkably lofted texture considering its flavor horsepower. Cassis. Lime. Strawberry thorn. Ruthlessly attenuated—desiccation in action. Juniper. Bay leaf. Pitch. Framboise. Ruby grapefruit. Oyster. A massive and thoroughly sublimated payload of polysaccharide. Voiceless mineral grip seizes the finish. A knowingly premature bottle.
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10/13/2022 - FiggySmalls wrote:
Pnp at Aldo Sohm
Quite open. Wonderfully bracing and full expression. Saline and lemon zest. Pithy texture.Fabulous bottle.
Air/age would do this well as there's some youthful effervescence. I find that delicious though
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10/12/2022 - CADomer Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is a wine that I am always very excited for, when the new vintage is released. It is the not so well kept secret that it is basically a declassified GG, but I believe that the 2021 has a majority of Kirchspiel fruit.
I opened this wine a few hours before enjoying and let it slow-o to gently open. It was obviously young, but showed a level of delicacy and balance that was particularly striking. There were moments reminded me of drinking from a mineral spring and then others had flashes of the energy and intensity of fresh lemons full of acid and grip.
Overall I feel the beauty on the 2021 is in the purity and elegance that was utterly mesmerizing. Mouthwatering notes of salty lemon, Gala apples, and candied lime followed by beautiful aromatics of mint and perfumed orchard fruits. The wonderful mineral vein that rain through this wine was chalky and added such depth to a wine that already had so much to say.
This wine speaks to the delicate balance that is the magic of Keller. There is power for sure, but there is also so much nuance, class, and a clear expression of the wonderful vineyards which the wines come from.
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10/9/2022 - mdefreitas wrote: 92 Points
Not as austere as previous vintages, with a bit more obvious fruit up front. Still, this is defined more by its superb acidity and minerality. Very much GG in quality. The next day this showed more apple and pear fruit with a nice bitter pithy note on the finish. Could use a bit more length, however.
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10/4/2022 - Mikaelbe Likes this wine:
Terrific fruit intensity, and wine for that matter. As I consumed the bottle over several night I had the chance to try it with different food and what really surprised me was how well it handled spicy thai noodles (!), I would normally expect that a bit of RS would be required, but the fruit intensity somehow balanced out the spices.
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10/1/2022 - Peraix wrote:
Razor sharp acidity. Stay off for some years.
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9/26/2022 - Sverre Roald wrote:
God. Pluss. Uten feil.
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8/23/2022 - Christian von Dresky Likes this wine: 90 Points
Jap, this is very good and 90 maybe to low. This is pure fun but on such a high level and very subtlety made. Crisp I read, and I say yes, it is. I am happy this is really affordable and also delicious. Something you can not say about many Keller wines - financially spoken. Even though I like them all.
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8/21/2022 - Dugis wrote: 89 Points
Crisp minerals. Great acidity
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8/12/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 91 Points
blind
Guessed Keller right. Very play and joyful but a serious wine likewise. Lemon driven with some passionfruit. 91
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6/17/2022 - fc1910 Likes this wine:
Back to Riesling Country 2.0; 6/17/2022-6/21/2022 (Flörsheim-Dalsheim, Bad Kreuznach, Niederhausen, Oberhausen, Bad Sobernheim , Bockenau): Just moving 200 meters down the road and here we are, fine weather, 30+ degrees celsius, best circumstances for cooled sparklers and Riesling!
One glas, brief note:
enormous tension, refreshing, great start, *(**- +?)
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6/16/2022 - berlinhotel Likes this wine: 92 Points
Kurzprobe bei den Keller-Open:
hervorragend, lässt sich jetzt schon sehr gut trinken, 92+
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6/15/2022 - p.bechthold Likes this wine: 91 Points
This is a lot more approachable than other vintages of this wine at this stage, great riesling, very balanced, some fruit and a lot of minerality and salinity
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5/21/2022 - Bradetti Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very nice "von der Fels"! The '19 and '20 were not on the level of the '18, but this one here fires in all cylinders! Great stuff but will wait at least 5 years for the next bottle.
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5/19/2022 - fc1910 Likes this wine:
My first bottle from the new vintage,
all new but the appearance is as always!
Stunning ELECTRIC and salty!
The problem with KPK today is:
no subsequent delivery for anyone, really no chance to order more!
A reference for dry Riesling middle class+!
Even better than a lot of GG from other producers!
Too young, wait at least 5(+) years,
*(**-****), around 91-93 potential
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5/8/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 92 Points
not blind
young, dense Riesling. Better than some of the GG's from other wineries. Will age nicely. 92
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