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The October 2015 Internet-Only Auction Part 5
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Estimate: $450
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"Weilâs 2006 Kiedricher Turmberg Riesling Spatlese displays far more clarity, drive, and personality than this yearâs generic Spatlese. Pear, apricot, yellow plum, and pineapple are accompanied by lily-like sweet floral and ethereally honeyed botrytis notes in the nose, and saturate the palate with pure fruit and honey. For all of its richness this has elegance and finishes with the salty, chalky mineral expressions one seeks in great Kiedrich Riesling. [Wilhelm Weil relates that his team (twice the size he would have fielded only a few years ago) harvested for seven weeks without pause, 14-18 hours a day in order to capture the best possible quality from a year that set records in the Rheingau for total heat accumulation, but then of course threw inopportune rain in the vintnerâs way. âThe critical thing was to retain a reflection of our terroir, but to make use of the opportunity afforded by such precocious ripeness,â he observes. As in so many recent vintages, the Weil estate also benefited from some of the stoniest soils and highest, breeziest exposures in the Rheingau.]"
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"Weilâs 2006 Kiedricher Turmberg Riesling Spatlese displays far more clarity, drive, and personality than this yearâs generic Spatlese. Pear, apricot, yellow plum, and pineapple are accompanied by lily-like sweet floral and ethereally honeyed botrytis notes in the nose, and saturate the palate with pure fruit and honey. For all of its richness this has elegance and finishes with the salty, chalky mineral expressions one seeks in great Kiedrich Riesling. [Wilhelm Weil relates that his team (twice the size he would have fielded only a few years ago) harvested for seven weeks without pause, 14-18 hours a day in order to capture the best possible quality from a year that set records in the Rheingau for total heat accumulation, but then of course threw inopportune rain in the vintnerâs way. âThe critical thing was to retain a reflection of our terroir, but to make use of the opportunity afforded by such precocious ripeness,â he observes. As in so many recent vintages, the Weil estate also benefited from some of the stoniest soils and highest, breeziest exposures in the Rheingau.]"
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The spiritual home of Riesling, producing wines of piercing acidity, precision and longevity across a spectrum from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. Cool, steep-sloped vineyards along the Mosel and Rhine yield some of the world's most delicate, long-lived whites.
A historic Riesling region along the Rhine, producing racier, often drier wines of structure and mineral depth from south-facing slopes.
A highly aromatic white of piercing acidity and transparency to terroir, ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. It ages remarkably and is the noble grape of Germany and Alsace.