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Schloss Johannisberg Spätlese "Grünlack" 2022

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Size: 750 ml (Standard)
White

94+p/Parker: "Fabulous", 99p/JamesSuckling, 94p/Falstaff. Price in Denmark; 499, global price 400 (year 22) - really low price for exceptional wine!
A historical classic from one of the world's finest wine castles, which now delivers some of Germany's - and the world's - finest white wines, year after year increasingly finer wines, since the brilliant winemaker/director Stefan Doktor joined in 2008.
The classic great Riesling. A wealth of flowers and tropical fruit in aroma and taste, incredibly elegant, delicate. Medium sweet, but perfectly balanced with crispness and wonderful freshness.
The vineyard has been known since 817 and was a monastery from 1100 until the early 1800s, when it was confiscated and in 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon, given by the Austrian Emperor to Prince von Metternich as a thank you for his work at the Vienna Conference. To this day, 10% of the harvest is given to the Emperor's descendants, the Habsburg family!
The vineyard covers 50 hectares in a block around the castle and is 100% Grosse Lage + ordsteil (i.e. outside classification). The vineyard was the first to be planted 100% with Riesling. In 1770, it was also the place where Spätlese was "invented" by accident, when the monks waited in vain for a courier with the bishop's permission to start the harvest. However, the very late harvest turned out to be the finest wine! A statue pays tribute to the unfortunate courier.
The wine ferments and ages on sour lees in oak barrels, made from oak from 300 hectares of castle forest behind the castle.
Just 40,000 bottles of this wine bottled in Sept. 23. Impressive now, but best 2029-60.
99P/James Suckling: "A masterpiece".
94+p/Parker: "Opens with a clear, intense, aromatic, savory and flinty bouquet of tropical fruits intertwined with almost slatey, in any case, savory and saline notes. It is perfectly ripe and super precise and irresistible. Rich and lush but fine and elegant on the palate. It is incredibly savory, lush and saline. You can't stop swallowing this beauty and picture-book Spätlese. It is mouthwatering without end. This is a fabulous wine of great precision and piquancy! 8% natural cork.
Stefan Doktor reports "good results" from a "difficult vintage."
"Rotten and noble rotten berries are taboo at Schloss Johannisberg for all wines below the Spätlese and Auslese predicates. Botrytis cinerea was not even selected in 2022, but magnificent Spätleses were one of the three highlights of the vintage!"
"We harvested quite late in 2022, but only during the breaks in the rain," reports Doktor. His team began picking at the end of September (significantly later than Eva Fricke just a few kilometers to the west) and finished around 20 October.
James Suckling gave 2022 Grünlack 99p/100:
"Taste this before you die! What do you say about a wine that almost literally knocks you off your chair? All the flowers and fruits of the tropics, but so delicate and refined that you can hardly get a grip on it. Such brilliance and such precise balance enables this medium-sweet riesling to defy effortlessly the rules of the category and confidently swim directly against the current of wine fashion. Supernatural freshness at the finish."
However, Parker believes (like me) that 2022 is a little nicer (he gave 92+/100 to 2019).
94p/Falstaff: "Fine, mineral-driven nose, rock flour, ripe citrus, candied lime peel, deep and delicate. On the palate with rich sweetness, lively acidity, very gripping, highly mineral, citrus freshness, spices, enormous drive, great aging potential and great length."

Fixed Price
40.96 EUR
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