From 0.375. Opened this beauty as a dessert wine after a Vosne-Romanee themed dinner with many top Burgs. All at the table agreed how high the quality of this German Auslese was from the stellar 2001 vintage. Expressive, nose wafting from the glass with complex aromas around quince, apricot, lemon, petrol. Very grand. Excellent acidity on the palate buffering the sweetness. Definitely dessert wine richness here, non need to pay TBA $. Robert Weil’s Kiedrich Graefenberg was the first German Riesling I got to know, introduced by Martel Wine in St.Gallen back in the 90ies. And still today, after many years of having tasted all the great names, some of them substantially more expensive, Robert Weil’s Kiedrich Grafenberg Spatlese/Auslese and recently also GG remains one of my favorite Riesling. I also like that they stuck to the iconic baby-blue label.
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Had no intention at all of opening this until I noticed the bottle showed a bit of seepage, and the wine was not entirely clear. Fortunately, there was nothing to worry about. Deep golden core, with an incredibly intense nose of peach and apricot, with just the slightest hint of saffron. Decidedly sweet, but with a magnificent backbone of acidity balancing things out. Man is this primary -- and intense. One of the densest, sweetest, most full-bodied Auslesen I ever tasted (certainly when compared to a 2001 JJ Prum I tried a few months back). This is built like a Mack truck, and will probably last another 50 years. Astounding.
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Glass: Zalto Universal Popped and poured from half bottle. Clear, deep golden color with amber reflexes. Clean, medium+ intense, developing nose driven by botrytis, candied fruit, some floral notes and lime. Very dense and multi-layered. Sweet, beautifully balanced by the perfectly integrated, medium+ acidity. Only 8% abv. Medium+ body. Aromas of botrytis, honey, candied fruit, lime, blood orange and mango. Creamy mouthfeel, never cloying or sticky. Very concentrated and dense, more like a declassified BA. Very long and lingering with lots of botrytis flavors in the finish. Has at least 2 decades of further development ahead. 93-95
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maturing bright gold color, dazzling nose of honeyed citrus fruits with ethereal rose petal notes, on the palate a delightful and also slightly aggressive Auslese coming into full maturity, loads of succulent red cherries, sweet citrus and soft lime acids coated in honey, slight brown sugar component, honeysuckle, a wine of ponderous depth carried through effortlessly, blood orange in time, at once subtle and substantial. A fine 2001 just now entering a long and glorious plateau.
****(*)+, now to 2050
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What a sensational wine! Even for someone who'd rather be drinking dry Riesling, this was a magnificent bottle of Auslese. Of course it benefited from being opened for two days - the nose in particular was much improved from the second day onwards. But on the palate this was amazing from the start - honey, caramel, stone fruit, passion - this one had it all, with its considerable residual sugar perfectly integrated with a refreshing acidity which provided this bottle great precision.
I wouldn't hurry to drink it if you have in your cellar - it might improve a bit in the next few years. But if you have more than one, why wait? This is probably as good as it gets in this category at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised to find out, as some in this thread have suggested, that this is instead a BA in disguise. Highly recommended, and a great QPR for around $80.
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Taste blind, last half bottle dessert wine. Nice golden yellow in the glass, bright and vivid. Fresh lifted nose, showing mineral dominant nose along with honey, raisin, sugar cane and subtle sweetness. Pretty sweet on palate, rich and luscious. With honey, dried raisin and mineral overtones. Nice long finish.
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Golden, almost copper. Much more expressive compared to 3 years ago. Dried ripe fruit aromas and luscious texture on the honeyed yellow fruited flavors. This is a rich wine no doubt (easily BA level) but never cloying due to the acidity in the background. Amazing persistence and mouthfeel. An excellent Auslese that I keep reaching for another glass.
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2011 Casual Session - 7, When casual gone insane (Extra Space Boon Keng): From 375ml. Deep and powerful on the nose, especially with the thick aromas of sweet honey apricot, salted mineral Infuse plum fruits. Good freshness at entry then the palate is quickly coated and acidity is overwhelmed by the intensely concentrated sweet fruits flavors that come across as fat and cloying. Good depth though, with medium length finish. The previous bottle is so easily two notches up compared to this with better, livelier acidity lift for the great precision and focus that I adored. Let's just hope that the rest of the bottle will be as great as the 1st. Buy - Maybe.
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From a half. Liquid golden. Rather tight and not showing very well. Extract and acidity were fully intact but definitely not as wow as the previous one I had. Day 2 after some oxidation this was really singing. The body rounded up nicely and the tropical primary fruit taste was so luscious and opulent. Extremely sweet but not lacking in finesse and never cloying even as it stains the palate for a 30 second finish. If blinded, i would easily have guessed a Beerenauslese, such was the richness, complexity and body. Nectar of the gods with the balance to age forever.
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Simple Series II: Henry's Birthday (Ming Kee, Macpherson Road): What an excellent wine! Best of the sweets, this beat out a pretty impressive crowd which included a very good d'Yquem. Awesome nose - perfume, musk, flowers, along with preserved lemons, peach, apricot and nectar tones - tons of depth and complexity here. True to Weil's style, just brilliantly balanced on the palate. Enough to bring a smile to my face even after the ton of wine we went through. Lovely depth of fruit, nice honey and nectar tones, and plenty of length with touches of manuka honey at the end. Rather primary at the moment, this was really infanticide, but I was very happy to have a taste of this wine. Certainly one of the best drinking Weil Auslesen in the past few years, with the possible exception of the 2002. Unlike the 2002, I would give this at least 6-7 years before broaching again though,
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Incredible nose with flavours of honey, apricot, lime/citrus zest, spice and hints of petrol and wet stones. Huge, rich palate with a minerally character, sweet honeyed pear and citrus flavours, plenty of acidity and a long, elegant finish.
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Rieslings & Reds @ Howard's (Old Greenwich): This is ridiculously young right now. Huge and unformed, but this will be great. This cannot be an Auslese, as it has the weight and feel of a beerenauslese. Thick, juicy and monolithic right now.
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Absolute infanticide. Remarkably forthcoming nose, but all primary scents: pears plus citrus, with tons of spice and less obvious hints of baked stone. Huge, concentrated in the mouth, fabulously spicy; acid is adequate without being racy. Nice finish. Put away for ten years minimum.
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4/19/2023 - jonboy74 wrote:
Less acidity than last bottle. Still good but didnt reach the heights of last time. Will try again.
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12/30/2020 - kodreaming Likes this wine: 95 Points
Definitely taste closer to a BA so make it an amazing desert wine.
What a wine. Sweet but fresh with intense, still fairly primary fruit. Long life ahead.
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9/11/2020 - kenarn wrote: 95 Points
Young, fresh, a long life ahead.
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8/21/2020 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points
From 0.375. Opened this beauty as a dessert wine after a Vosne-Romanee themed dinner with many top Burgs. All at the table agreed how high the quality of this German Auslese was from the stellar 2001 vintage. Expressive, nose wafting from the glass with complex aromas around quince, apricot, lemon, petrol. Very grand. Excellent acidity on the palate buffering the sweetness. Definitely dessert wine richness here, non need to pay TBA $.
Robert Weil’s Kiedrich Graefenberg was the first German Riesling I got to know, introduced by Martel Wine in St.Gallen back in the 90ies. And still today, after many years of having tasted all the great names, some of them substantially more expensive, Robert Weil’s Kiedrich Grafenberg Spatlese/Auslese and recently also GG remains one of my favorite Riesling. I also like that they stuck to the iconic baby-blue label.
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2/21/2020 - Guy Des Rosiers Likes this wine: 93 Points
Had no intention at all of opening this until I noticed the bottle showed a bit of seepage, and the wine was not entirely clear. Fortunately, there was nothing to worry about. Deep golden core, with an incredibly intense nose of peach and apricot, with just the slightest hint of saffron. Decidedly sweet, but with a magnificent backbone of acidity balancing things out. Man is this primary -- and intense. One of the densest, sweetest, most full-bodied Auslesen I ever tasted (certainly when compared to a 2001 JJ Prum I tried a few months back). This is built like a Mack truck, and will probably last another 50 years. Astounding.
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10/13/2019 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points
Glass: Zalto Universal
Popped and poured from half bottle. Clear, deep golden color with amber reflexes. Clean, medium+ intense, developing nose driven by botrytis, candied fruit, some floral notes and lime. Very dense and multi-layered.
Sweet, beautifully balanced by the perfectly integrated, medium+ acidity. Only 8% abv. Medium+ body. Aromas of botrytis, honey, candied fruit, lime, blood orange and mango. Creamy mouthfeel, never cloying or sticky. Very concentrated and dense, more like a declassified BA. Very long and lingering with lots of botrytis flavors in the finish. Has at least 2 decades of further development ahead. 93-95
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8/16/2019 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:
maturing bright gold color, dazzling nose of honeyed citrus fruits with ethereal rose petal notes, on the palate a delightful and also slightly aggressive Auslese coming into full maturity, loads of succulent red cherries, sweet citrus and soft lime acids coated in honey, slight brown sugar component, honeysuckle, a wine of ponderous depth carried through effortlessly, blood orange in time, at once subtle and substantial. A fine 2001 just now entering a long and glorious plateau.
****(*)+, now to 2050
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4/30/2018 - S-C-S Likes this wine: 90 Points
Dark yellow color
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11/2/2017 - br_winelover Likes this wine: 96 Points
What a sensational wine! Even for someone who'd rather be drinking dry Riesling, this was a magnificent bottle of Auslese. Of course it benefited from being opened for two days - the nose in particular was much improved from the second day onwards. But on the palate this was amazing from the start - honey, caramel, stone fruit, passion - this one had it all, with its considerable residual sugar perfectly integrated with a refreshing acidity which provided this bottle great precision.
I wouldn't hurry to drink it if you have in your cellar - it might improve a bit in the next few years. But if you have more than one, why wait? This is probably as good as it gets in this category at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised to find out, as some in this thread have suggested, that this is instead a BA in disguise. Highly recommended, and a great QPR for around $80.
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11/25/2015 - berlinhotel wrote: flawed
Vertikale Robert Weil Kiedricher Gräfenberg Auslese 1999 bis 2009
Kork
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4/1/2015 - hkm520240 wrote: 91 Points
Taste blind, last half bottle dessert wine. Nice golden yellow in the glass, bright and vivid.
Fresh lifted nose, showing mineral dominant nose along with honey, raisin, sugar cane and subtle sweetness.
Pretty sweet on palate, rich and luscious. With honey, dried raisin and mineral overtones. Nice long finish.
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2/15/2014 - Dbrane wrote: 92 Points
Golden, almost copper. Much more expressive compared to 3 years ago. Dried ripe fruit aromas and luscious texture on the honeyed yellow fruited flavors. This is a rich wine no doubt (easily BA level) but never cloying due to the acidity in the background. Amazing persistence and mouthfeel. An excellent Auslese that I keep reaching for another glass.
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6/2/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
2011 Casual Session - 7, When casual gone insane (Extra Space Boon Keng): From 375ml. Deep and powerful on the nose, especially with the thick aromas of sweet honey apricot, salted mineral Infuse plum fruits. Good freshness at entry then the palate is quickly coated and acidity is overwhelmed by the intensely concentrated sweet fruits flavors that come across as fat and cloying. Good depth though, with medium length finish. The previous bottle is so easily two notches up compared to this with better, livelier acidity lift for the great precision and focus that I adored. Let's just hope that the rest of the bottle will be as great as the 1st. Buy - Maybe.
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3/25/2011 - Dbrane wrote: 92 Points
From a half. Liquid golden. Rather tight and not showing very well. Extract and acidity were fully intact but definitely not as wow as the previous one I had.
Day 2 after some oxidation this was really singing. The body rounded up nicely and the tropical primary fruit taste was so luscious and opulent. Extremely sweet but not lacking in finesse and never cloying even as it stains the palate for a 30 second finish. If blinded, i would easily have guessed a Beerenauslese, such was the richness, complexity and body. Nectar of the gods with the balance to age forever.
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1/29/2010 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Simple Series II: Henry's Birthday (Ming Kee, Macpherson Road): What an excellent wine! Best of the sweets, this beat out a pretty impressive crowd which included a very good d'Yquem. Awesome nose - perfume, musk, flowers, along with preserved lemons, peach, apricot and nectar tones - tons of depth and complexity here. True to Weil's style, just brilliantly balanced on the palate. Enough to bring a smile to my face even after the ton of wine we went through. Lovely depth of fruit, nice honey and nectar tones, and plenty of length with touches of manuka honey at the end. Rather primary at the moment, this was really infanticide, but I was very happy to have a taste of this wine. Certainly one of the best drinking Weil Auslesen in the past few years, with the possible exception of the 2002. Unlike the 2002, I would give this at least 6-7 years before broaching again though,
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4/21/2007 - salil wrote: 96 Points
Incredible nose with flavours of honey, apricot, lime/citrus zest, spice and hints of petrol and wet stones. Huge, rich palate with a minerally character, sweet honeyed pear and citrus flavours, plenty of acidity and a long, elegant finish.
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8/26/2006 - mdefreitas wrote: 94 Points
Rieslings & Reds @ Howard's (Old Greenwich): This is ridiculously young right now. Huge and unformed, but this will be great. This cannot be an Auslese, as it has the weight and feel of a beerenauslese. Thick, juicy and monolithic right now.
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6/6/2006 - MichaelJennings wrote: 94 Points
Absolute infanticide. Remarkably forthcoming nose, but all primary scents: pears plus citrus, with tons of spice and less obvious hints of baked stone. Huge, concentrated in the mouth, fabulously spicy; acid is adequate without being racy. Nice finish. Put away for ten years minimum.
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