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2009 F.X. Pichler Riesling Kellerberg Trockenbeerenauslese 375ml
F.X. Pichler
There is an international consensus that Kellerberg is the absolute model vineyard. This vertiginous, barren and purist primitive-rock terrace, which is exposed from south to south-east and located at the exit of a side valley, creates a very special microclimate. The Kellerberg vineyard is already pampered by the sun early in the morning. During night, cool air streaming in from the bordering woods fosters the development of the complex texture and delicately nuanced, usually exotic aromas and flavors typical of this wine. In fall, large temperature differences between day and night shape the grapes. Honey melon, mango, passion fruit, banana and fully ripe peach, concise minerally notes as a dowry of the meager, weathered soil, and the extremely deeply rooting old vines make the wines of this site unparalleled and outstanding. We are fascinated about the wines from Kellerberg due to their filigree elegance, which can hardly be expressed in words.
Wine Advocate
96 points
The Pichlers’ 2009 Riesling Kellerberg Trockenbeerenauslese had not finished fermenting when I visited the estate in June last year, but tasted from bottle this June it gave a terrific account of itself. Candied pink grapefruit and orange rinds; pear nectar; quince and apricot preserves, are all wreathed in peat-like smoke and musky floral perfume; tinged with caramel; and accented by pepper in a manner familiar from this site, here with reciprocal reinforcement by botrytis spice. For a wine of such sheer intensity of flavor and creamy richness of texture, this shows an impressive command of flavor detail – spice, citrus zest, and saline, alkaline, smoky mineral counterpoint – as well as displaying uncanny buoyancy and refreshment. The 350 (!) grams of residual sugar in no way translate into cloying or tedium: on the contrary, sheer sweetness is far from one’s mind while being dazzled by this performance. Nor do the wine’s theoretically German Eiswein-like 17 grams of acidity come off as sharp. That’s balance! There are only 450 liters of this nectarous essence of Kellerberg, all in half bottles.
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