Okonomierat Rebholz Riesling Pfalz Kastanianbusch GG 2021 (375ML)

97 JS / 95 WA / 18 JR

12.5% Alcohol

This smells like breaking open a beautifully ripe passion fruit! The palate of this great dry riesling has a very sleek silhouette, but an enormous amount of complex minerality (think every shade of rock from red to black) packed into it. Like a tight rosebud that needs time to unfurl its tightly folded beauty. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification. Drinkable now, but best from 2024.—James Suckling

The 2021 Kastanienbusch Riesling GG shows pure, fresh and elegant, juicy, ripe and concentrated fruit with herbaceous spicy aromas. Dense, lush and savory on the palate, with fine mineral acidity and highly elegant, juicy-savory fruit, this is a very long, mineral and tensioned Kastanienbusch with great purity, salinity and highly finessed texture. The finish is fresh and lemony, pure and salty, stimulating and vital, demanding and powerful. It's a very expressive Kastanienbusch. 12.5% stated alcohol. Tasted in Wiesbaden in August and again at the domaine in November 2022.—Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate

Fragrant warm lemon curd and raspberry, lemon balm and citrus. A smoky spice waits in the wings. Ridiculously complex and philosophical despite its svelte shape. Revisit in 10 years’ time. (PS), Jancis Robinson