Weingut Keller

Klaus-Peter Keller has inspired a renaissance of viniculture in the Hügelland, where the Benedictines of the Kloster Lorch grew some of the most prestigious wines in the Rheinland, in vineyards that were forgotten after the French Revolution.   His stunning dry Rieslings have been called “the German Montrachets” by Jancis Robinson, MW, the brilliant editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine. But his noble sweet wines are no less well received. In fact, Keller has won the Gault Millau “Best of Germany” award in both categories. “If I had to name the best producer in Germany today, it would be Klaus‐Peter Keller, wrote Steven Tanzer, the world’s stingiest wine critic. “Everything he touches turns to gold.”    Though lionized by the journalists as the greatest winegrower of his generation, Klaus-Peter is quick to point out that “great wine would not be possible here, if it weren’t for these great limestone soils. It’s only that someone had to remember the old tradition and just make good wine.”

 

Riesling Trocken 2019 $33.99

The perfect way to get your eye in on the 2019 Vintage from the Rheinhessen. Kellers Trocken is a stunner, incredible length and depth of flavour. It dances lightly across your tongue. This is just a delight. The line of acid sits perfectly. At 12% alcohol it’s quite a dry rendition, balance is bang on. The texture is just so fine. Perfume delights! Delicious lime, citrus cleanses.

 

Riesling 'Limestone' 2019 $37.99

On the palate, the wine is a juicy explosion, shimmering with voltaic tension between delicate sweetness and electrifying apple and lime citric acidity. But you never notice sweetness or acidity separately. Pure green apple, white cranberry, tangerine, and stone fruit flavors, all seasoned with palpable saline minerality, lead to a long emphatic finish, with plenty of fresh acidity, depth, and cut. John Gilman, arguably the world’s foremost critic of German wine, called it “succulent and flat out delicious.”