2022 Robert Weil Kiedrich Gräfenberg Beerenauslese Half Bottle 375ml, Rheingau

Half Bottle 375ml

A magnificent Rheingau BA with an enormous depth of dried apricot and dried mango character. Very compact and structured, this really needs some years of further aging to reach its youthful best form. Excellent balance, also due to the very vibrant acidity that underlies the tremendous richness.

97 points Stuart Pigott jamessuckling.com

The 2022 Riesling Kiedricher Gräfenberg Beerenauslese was harvested from shriveled grapes, only some of which were affected with botrytis. This lends extra purity to these wines. The nose is vivid with slightly dried white currant and pale sultana. The palate is super fresh but also super concentrated. Candied peach, supple, defined and pure, the 2022 becomes as intense as a crystallized peach. Peach flesh, skin, compote and candied fruit are all here. The sweetness is immense, but so is the acidity which delineates and illuminates all. The mouthfeel is viscous. This is precious, intense and lasting.

97 points Anne Krebiehl MW vinous.com

The intensely golden-colored 2022 Kiedrich Gräfenberg Riesling Beerenauslese opens with a concentrated but stunningly fresh and greenish bouquet of lime and lemon zest as well as candied grapefruit. This is a concentrated but elegant and refined noble sweet wine with a generous and rich but also refined texture and saline, very fine and stimulating acidity.

96 points Stephan Reinhardt robertparker.cm

Alcohol: 8.5% | Acidity: 11.6 g/L | Residual sugar: 199 g/L

“Where would the Rheingau’s tradition of high-end Riesling dessert wines be today if it weren’t for Wilhelm Weil’s modern masterpieces in the style?” 

Stuart Pigott, Best White Wine on Earth: The Riesling Story

Weil is widely considered one of the true greats of the sweeter Prädikat styles. One of the keys to this estate’s success with these wines is that the mountainous, rocky setting of the Kiedricher Berg vineyards allows for a perfect balance between natural sweetness, mouth-watering freshness and pungent, intense minerality.

These wines are staggeringly beautiful. They are all don’t-miss wines. As is so often the case, Weil’s 2022 Gräfenberg Spätlese exhibits textbook balletic poise between the wine’s natural sweetness and laser-like acidity. The grapes for Weil’s Auslesen were harvested without any botrytis influence. It is the kind of iridescent wine that has helped shape Rheingau’s legend for the past two centuries. What little botrytis did arrive in 2022 came in late October, giving the estate the opportunity to craft homoeopathic doses of BA and TBA. If your budget stretches this far, you will be rewarded with two of Germany’s more celebrated wines.