Gunderloch Jean-Baptiste Rheinhessen Riesling Kabinett 2016
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Product Details
Varietal
Region
Producer
Vintage
2016
Size
750ML
ABV
10%
Features
Screw Cap
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Winemaker Notes
Featuring passionfruit, peaches and pink lemonade flavors bursting through its juicy, electric palate, girded by thumping red slate.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
The hint of funk adds excitement to grapefruit and peach character and makes this juicy, but just off-dry wine extremely delicious. Where are those spicy Thai prawns?
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Wine Enthusiast
Crisp, cutting white-grapefruit and peach flavors are accented by subtle earth and mineral tones in this refreshingly spry kabinett. It's just a shade off dry in style, lip smacking and spine tingling. It finishes long and dry.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Riesling Kabinett Jean Baptiste is from different vineyards on the red slope and includes 30/40% of the pre-selections in the grand crus plus the flatter parts. Fermented in stainless steel, the wine is clear, pure and intense on the nose but also fresh and slatey. Round and lush but also piquant and fresh on the palate, this is a salty and well-structured Kabinett with a certain power, lingering salinity and tension. Absolutely gorgeous!
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The Gunderloch estate in Nackenheim, just southwest of Frankfurt, was founded in 1890 by the banker Carl Gunderloch on the banks of the river Rhine. From the beginning, the estate was run with a strict commitment to quality. He bought top vineyard sites, including a large part of great Nackenheim Rothenberg. Since its foundation, the estate has stayed in the same family, now in its fifth generation, with Agnes and Fritz Hasselbach. It comprises 30 acres of vineyards in the towns of Nacknheim and Nierstein. The principal grape varietal is Riesling, which finds its most powerful espression in the Nackenheim Rothenberg vineyard. The combination of its steepness, exposure, soil structure and proximity to the river gives the Rothenberg vineyard the optimal microclimates for ripening its famous Rieslings.
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
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