Some Dude

9.0

This one is a winner. Delightful and graceful, my guests all loved it. We served it with a miso, coconut salmon curry and it was a beautiful pair. So much juice for the money! And the frizzante really is wonderful.  — 4 months ago

Conrad Green

9.3

Lovely and poised. From mag. Cool steely fruit with hints of white flowers and orchard fruits. Fine tannins and a cool driving acidity. — 7 months ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.2

Is there a better Silvaner!? — 8 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2019 | minerals and slate in smell, Turkish delight, very well balanced and good structure. Lovely effort. | paired with veal meat, broccoli and potatoes gratin | at restaurant Hohenzollern Bad Neuenahr — 10 months ago

Carmen

8.9

If Sour Patch Kids grew up and gave birth to a grapefruit, it would be this wine. Subtly sparkling with aromas of strawberry and flavors of grapefruit and red fruit candies with an almost sour acidity.
Super fun!! — 10 months ago

John Van Trijp

10

Auction bottle magnum — 4 years ago

Joe Hakim

10

Perfect. Lots of lime & minerality. Paired brilliantly with a sunny day. — 4 years ago

Martin Bergo

9.2

Sumptuous but delicate. — 5 months ago

Andrew McIntyre

9.3

This was such much better than I thought it would be! Bursting with fruit and spice with perfectly balanced acidity...gorgeous wine! — 5 months ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Gold cap. Wonderfully fresh and intense. Still lifted. Fit perfectly resolved and balanced. Great stuff. — 7 months ago

with Amanda

Kurt Schuster

9.3

Mineral, acid, and a good amount of sweetness. Could use a bit more structure to fight against the sweet minerality but it works out well with some diesel/exhaust notes and crisp unripe Bartlett pear notes. Very lovely. — 9 months ago

with Denise

Erik Longabardi

9.5

Don’t be an idiot and not taste this — 2 years ago

John Van Trijp

9.7

Magnum Dry. Bottle 19/300 — 3 years ago

Ivor

9.1

Fruit filled glacier water with depth and a mineral finish. Pretty long for an ‘instappertje’ — 4 years ago

Costas Constantinides

9.2

This wine is fantastic. — 5 months ago

Donald Williams

9.3

A little off-dry. Not as perfect with dinner as I intended, but that’s on me. — 6 months ago

with Bonnie

Aaron Tan

9.9

One of the best evenings of wine I’ve had this year, and it was just focused on this duo. Opened as inspiration for this year’s red pick at Miao Lu (a name to remember for those reading. I’ll say it here first - some of the best Pinot’s and Chard’s in the world will be coming out of this project high up in Yunnan!), and they both gave great context to the task.

When I harvested with Klaus-Peter in 2017, the vineyards bore the scars of hail, every last one of them. The damage was manifest in what we came to call "hail berries" (misshapen berries). To my untrained palate, they tasted perfectly fine. Naturally, I asked KP why we were discarding them, and his response, while not entirely unexpected, was still astonishing (paraphrasing of course): "I don't need to know precisely what they do," he said, "but if there's even a chance they might diminish the wine by 1%, they're gone. And these? They look capable of much worse."

That unyielding spirit of his was, I must admit, my torment at Abtserde, the vineyard hit hardest by the hail. We spent an entire day sorting and picking a single row - granted, the rows were long, but the pace was glacial. The true enemy, though, wasn’t the relentless sorting, but the wasps. Those little demons made an already grueling task even more daunting, dodging their stings as we plucked berries one by one, like selecting pearls from a troubled sea. What we ended up with were, quite literally, tiny gems - "caviar" berries of purity. By day’s end, the sight was something to behold. Despite the torment, the hard work was unquestionably worth it. The 17’ Abtserde is my wine of the vintage.

I’ve had the 17’ Abtserde on numerous occasions but this takes the cake as the best (note to self: best to decant a young Abtserde hard). It is a marvel of purity and depth, with its nose evoking Meyer lemon, iodine, chalk, and flint. These aromas reappear on the palate with a nearly overwhelming intensity, blending piquant brightness and mineral-rich concentration. With more air, a floral, bittersweet herbal note very typical of the vineyard appears (smells like the place even). As the evening unfolded, the wine seemed to grow younger, each glass more lively than the last. The final sip was almost painfully austere, like drinking pure limestone, its explosive palate held together by sharp acidity and a palpable, phenolic grip. The finish seemed endless. One of my best Keller experiences this year. — 7 months ago

Tyler Felous

9.6

Wow. Starts so clean/crisp, then you get the mouthfeel, with a tart finish. Beautiful. So excited to be drinking more Riesling — 2 years ago

Yueting

9.2

Nice sweet red — 4 years ago

Benno

9.2

Very slight fizz, pale straw colour. An attractive mix of pear, quince and something a little more exotic, like pineapple. Mid-acidity and sweetness with shortish length as all in balance. Light and enjoyable. Tasted again after a couple of nights in the fridge this had put on weight and become richer and more round and very harmonious - Delicious — 5 years ago