2022 Weingut Keller Assortment case
The 2022s have unbelievable freshness and verve.
Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
2022 Weingut Keller Assortment case
£2,400 per 6-bottle case in bond
"Julia and Klaus-Peter Keller are undoubted rockstars of the German wine scene. With unstinting and constantly evolving focus on detail, visionary confidence in their sites and uncommon awareness of the world’s finest wines, they have turned their estate into one of Germany’s best wine addresses – and they also make Germany’s most coveted dry Riesling." Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
We can offer a rare Weingut Keller Riesling Assortment case of the 2022 vintage that includes two bottles of Morstein and one bottle of each of the other four wines below.
2022 Weingut Keller Assortment case
£2,400 per 6-bottle case in bond
2022 Riesling Westhofener Morstein Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Keller
98 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
The 2022 Riesling Westhofener Morstein is from 75-year-old vines that were field-grafted over to Riesling in 2009 (halt to Pinot Noir, half to Riesling). The nose is rather muted. Just a glimmer of lemon freshness shines, with a suspicion of reduction. The juicy, chalky palate expands somehow vertically into deep limestone chalkiness and inherent coolness. For now, there is just lemon. Everything else seems locked deep in that limestone freshness and cool profoundness. It will take time to allow the undoubted fruit to loosen itself from the austere stoniness and come to the surface. The extended finish comes with lemon zest and pith. (Bone-dry) Drink 2025-2050
2022 Riesling Niersteiner Hipping Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Keller
97 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
The 2022 Niersteiner Hipping Grosses Gewächs is harvested in the parcel that also provided the coronation wine for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953. The nose is vivid with the perfume of crushed tansy, followed by citrus. The palate is smooth, with a stony, salty, iron-oxide roundness, vivacious acidity is electric and textured, marked by real pithiness and seemingly naked stone. This package is compact, salty and monumental while remaining svelte, an arresting and delicious contrast. The tension, savoriness and depth are compelling. (Bone-dry) Drink 2025-2050
2022 Riesling Dalsheimer Oberer Hubacker Monopol Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Keller
96 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
The 2022 Riesling Dalsheimer Oberer Hubacker Grosses Gewächs was grown on yellow limestone. The nose is exquisitely scented, very fine, marked with chervil and lemon balm, purest lemon, yet also a flicker of peach skin. The palate is slender yet dense, fluid and compact, vivid with notions of red-cheeked apple, and again, just a touch of peach among the lemony, pithy concentration. The mid-palate has some heat, shows the site's power and seems to become riper and riper. It's like a thoroughbred, raring to go, barely containing its power, very streamlined, driven and straining at the leash. (Bone-dry) Drink 2025-2050
2022 Riesling Westhofener Kirchspiel Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Keller
96 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, vinous.com, September 2023
The 2022 Riesling Westhofener Kirchspiel Grosses Gewächs was harvested from vines planted in 1964. The nose is a cool, pure breeze of lemon balm and freshly cut, ripe lemon. The body is taut and tender, shimmering with ripe Mirabelle on the fluid, compact mid-palate. A fine phenolic web holds this together as the concentration seems to seep lemon-juice-like into the depth of cool limestone. This is driven and zesty, bone dry. The finish holds a shimmer of lemon and limestone with a frisson of seductive, riper stone fruit, very fine and elegant. (Bone-dry)
2022 Riesling G-Max, Weingut Keller
Not tasted.
"For Keller’s most infamous bottling, G-Max, the vineyard source – or, conceivably, sources plural, if they vary from year to year – is intended ever to remain a mystery. It’s safe to assume, though, based on how this wine performs, let alone circumstantial evidence, that the source is old vines in an especially favored location conducive to long life in bottle, which tends to point toward somewhere in Abtserde or Morstein." David Schildknecht, vinous.com, March 2023