Dr. Hermann Urziger Wurzgarten In der Kranklei Spatlese GoldKapsel Alte Reben, 2020, 750ML

Tasting Note

Robert Parker 96+, Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate, 10 December 2021

From 100+-year-old vines picked at 92° Oechsle, Hermann's 2020 Ürziger Würzgarten In der Kranklei Riesling Spätlese Alte Reben (Gold Capsule) opens with a deep and intense, pretty generous and tropical bouquet of ripe Riesling fruit and finely crushed red slate and herbs. On the palate, this is a mouth-filling yet pure, fresh and refined Kanklei with vibrant energy and tension. The wine develops a long, lush and stimulating, fine and salty finish and sums up as a generous but finessed and beautifully balanced picture-book Spätlese with great vitality. In early March of this year, 1,000 liters were bottled with 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted from AP 11 21 in November 2021.

Drink Date: 2027 - 2060

Winemaking

40 to 80 years old vines are harvested at just the precise time. All stainless steel. Ripe stone fruit, red berries, intense and aromatic yet also coolish bouquet of ripe, tropical fruits and flinty notes of crushed blue slate adding to the impression of structure. 

Winery

Dr. Hermann, the Riesling estate in Mosel Valley, Germany has more than 9 hectares of vineyards all managed by Christian Hermann. Winegrowing has been a tradition in the Hermann family for several hundred years. The estate was created in 1967 when the renowned Joh. Jos. Christoffel Erben in Ürzig was divided. In the following years, the vineyards were expanded. The Hermanns specialize in Riesling grown on steep rock slopes. All of their vineyards grow exclusively on old, ungrafted Riesling vines which deliver the most complex regional wines.