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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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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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.
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.
DBWDB8057_16_2016 Item# 547648