- Stunning Guts, Depth, Power and Concentration
- Refined and Sleek
- Uncanny Freshness
- Vivid and Deep Red Fruits
- Crazy Nose
- Dark, Meaty, Ripe
- Lovely Blackberry Fruit
- Laser-Like Balancing Acidity
- Balance is Just Extraordinary
- ELITE Levels of Precision
- As It Opens, Remarkably Delicious
- 94 Points for the 2018, Stephan Reinhardt / $31.99 NET / 60 Bottles
concentration and tastes like a top Crozes from Darnaud or Lelektsoglou. This one of the greatest Syrah values I've ever sold at Fass Selections. The 2018 got 94 from Stephan Reinhardt. It's $31.99!. This wine is a wine I want as many people as possible to have as their first German Syrah. Which is not possible as I only have 60 and this is only going to previous buyers. I’ve priced it to be affordable for all and it is just so delicious and complex. With 3-4 years in the cellar this will blow minds. Refined and sleek with an uncanny freshness and depth and it truly speaks of their little slice of heaven in Efringen-Kirchen
Just a crazy nose. It jumps and stops you in your tracks. The nose on the 19 is stunning and represents aromatic value like no other. Vivid and deep red fruit and sprinkled with limestone and black fruits.
This wine is dark, meaty, ripe and so soft, textured and juicy on the palate with lovely blackberry fruit, and wonderfully etched and fine tannins. But man the energy and depth is almost like a Jaspis from a normal year. That 2019 intensity. If you've ever had any Ziereisen wine you know what I'm talking about. It's that balance and tension between opulence/richness reigned in with freshness. Why the wines are so delicious and drinkable. The balance is just extraordinary. The acids are beautiful and extend the brilliant mouthfeel. Again - you get that Ziereisen precision here which is the hallmark of his style. Sickness. Brilliance. Genius. Startling value here.
If this was not a wine I had to sell before it sells out this would easily be the red wine of the year. But I gotta get that order in Monday! Below is the 2017 review.
“Kept on the mash for eight weeks and fermented for 20 months in (25% new) Assmann barriques, Ziereisen's 2018 Gestad is a terrific Syrah with highly attractive reduction and smoky flesh as well as dark fruit aromas of cherries, cassis and black olive tapenade and remarkable finesse and limestone-driven freshness. Smooth, refined and very intense on the palate, this is a full-bodied, warm and concentrated, very sustainable Syrah with silky, perfectly ripe and peppery tannins and a long and aromatic, blackberry finish. A gorgeous Syrah that is reminiscent of the Rhône, even though this is from pure limestone in the very south of Baden. By far the best Gestad I have tasted from Ziereisen in 20 years. 13.5% alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2021.” - 94 Points, Stefan Reinhardt (2018)
The Legend of Ziereisen
If you forced Hanspeter Ziereisen to only grow Fer Servadou (Obscure SW French grape) for red and Elbling for white (obscure Northern Mosel grape) he would transcend each grape and make wines that were so exciting and so profound you'd be like, "I never knew Fer Servadou and Elbling could taste like this." The man has the Midas touch when it comes to any grape. He has one of the most diversified portfolios of anyone I work with. Everything he touches is utterly elevated and then Ziereisenized. I am fully confident you could give him Chenin or whatever and he would give Clos Rougeard and Huet a run for the money. Germany is not known for Syrah. Most of Germany is much farther north than Syrah's most famous growing area (the Rhone). But Hanspeter Ziereisen is at the very southern tip of Germany, he has the terroir to grow great Syrah and he is, I can say without any hesitation, one of the great winemakers in the world. Hanspeter is making world class wine from 6 grapes: Pinot Noir, Grauburgunder, Weissburgunder, Chardonnay, Chasselas (aka Gutedel in Baden) and today's grape, Syrah.
I'd put this wine against the Northern Rhone Syrahs I've sold at $30-$50. And this is by far the most Northern Rhone like Syrah I've had from ANYWHERE that is not the Northern Rhone. It's tied with the Vinding Montecarrubo wines from Sicily. This has the aromatics and flavors of Northern Rhone Syrah but the wines is really more about balance and tension between fruit, richness acidity and secondary flavors, almost more the way a Burgundian would make Syrah.
2019 Ziereisen Gestad Syrah - $31.99 NET
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