2021 | Weinbau-Domane Schloss Johannisberg | Gelblack Riesling Trocken

Sweet Wine: 2021 | Weinbau-Domane Schloss Johannisberg | Gelblack Riesling Trocken

Amazing quality for an entry-level wine from a challenging vintage. Although this is only just beginning to open up, the delicate stone-fruit aromas are already enticing.

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Producer: Weinbau-Domane Schloss Johannisberg

Ratings: WA | 90 F | 92

Vintage: 2021

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Riesling

Country/Region: Germany, Rheingau

Amazing quality for an entry-level wine from a challenging vintage. Although this is only just beginning to open up, the delicate stone-fruit aromas are already enticing. Excellent ripeness on the wonderfully generous and creamy palate, then almost seamless harmony at the long, silky finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2021 Schloss Johannisberg Gelblack Riesling Trocken offers a clear, intense and quite complex, very elegant bouquet with flinty, leafy and nuanced ripe, white fruit aromas intermingled with earthy tones. Lush, round and very elegant on the palate, this is a supple, mouth-filling and textured Riesling with a long and intense, stunningly well-structured finish. An impressive estate wine that was aged for four months on the lees. Very good and persistent finish. Excellent. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork.

• Falstaff: The scent is grapey, somewhat floral and citrusy, notes of rock flour. Relatively sweet on the palate, lively but not excessively piquant acidity, medium weight in the extract, lots of juiciness and a pointedly fresh finish. Works quite precisely and also mature resistant.

Producer Information

Weinbau-Domane Schloss Johannisberg is a historic estate in the Rheingau region of Germany. It has exclusively grown Riesling grapes since 1720, and is thought to be the first estate in the world to have done so. The Johannisberg estate has a history of viticulture that spans approximately 1200 years. The vineyards were first documented by Louis the Pious in 817AD, and a Benedictine monastery was established in 1100. Prince Abbot Konstantin von Buttlar acquired the estate in 1716, and built the grand palace on the site of the original monastery. In 1775, Schloss Johannisberg became the first to deliberately cultivate Sptlese grapes. In 1816 the estate fell under the possession of the Emperor of Austria, and today ten percent of the grape harvest is given to the House of Habsburg (or its legal successors). The estate was ruined during World War II, but was rebuilt and restored to its former glory in 1965. Schloss Johannisberg became a designated wine appellation under German law in 1971. Schloss Johannisberg sits on one of three quartzite hills southeast of the Taunus mountain range. The soils here are quartzite rich, which is well-suited to the Riesling that occupies the vineyards. Wines are fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, as well as large oak casks made from oak sourced from the nearby Schloss Johannisberger forest. During the aging process, the wines spend a significant time on their lees, in order to increase complexity. The Weinbau-Domane Schloss Johannisberg cellar is referred to as the “Bibliotheca subterranea”, or underground library, as it contains centuries-old wines including the oldest bottle of Schloss Johannisberger Riesling.