Today I have two of the best 2011 Grosses Gewachs I tasted at the GG tasting this past August in Wiesbaden. I tasted over 400 GG's in two days and I am still tired just even thinking about it. Today I am offering the 2011 Schafer Frohlich Halenberg GG for $62.99, which is the lowest price for this wine in the US. I also have the 2011 Zilliken Rausch GG for the incredibly low price of $48.99. Easily the lowest price in the US.
I swooned over both of these wines in Wiesbaden and am thrilled to be able to offer these profound wines at under market and highly digestible prices.
I have been an unabashed fan of the Grosses Gewachs style of German Riesling since its debut in the 2001 vintage. For those who are not familiar with this style, it is a dry wine (usually Riesling but can be Spatburgunder, Silvaner and even Lemberger) from a producer's top site and sold one year after harvest. It is usually, before the nomenclature was changed, the equivalent of Auslese Trocken. There are many many bad GG's in the sea of GG's as well. All are not good. You need to choose carefully. I can help with that.
These wines, when they are on, can be the best white wine values in the world. The Burgundian equivalent would cost upwards of $150. Maybe more. Certainly at the below prices, I cannot think of any better values off the top of my head. It will be very hard for me to not buy some, but I want all of you to get some so I'll keep my hands off. |
Since 2001, slowly, a hierarchy has been established. Keller, Schafer-Frohlich, Donnhoff, Wittman, to name but a few, are at the top of the hierarchy. These aformentioned producers are all in the Nahe or Rheinhessen where it is warmer than the Mosel and easier to make these wines. But, the Saar, in recent years, has warmed up a bit and excellent GG and GG style wines are made there now.
These wines will arrive in time for fall delivery.
Please E-Mail me (by replying to this E-Mail) by Sunday 9 PM EST with your orders. After that I cannot accept any more orders. |
Below are two write-ups by John Gilman on the wines in today's offer with scores. I am not into scores, but just because I am not into them, does not mean I won't provide them, as some people find them useful. John is a friend and has a great palate and a passion for German wines rarely seen.
2011 Zilliken Rausch GG - "The 2011 Rausch Grosses Gewächs is an utter masterpiece in the making and a watershed wine at Weingut Geltz-Zilliken. The brilliant bouquet is a youthful mélange of pink grapefruit, lemon, kaleidoscopic slate tones, a gentle touch of wild yeasts, lime zest and a smoky topnote.This wine is hardly shy of fruit elements, but it is a study in the multi-faceted complexity of Rausch slate. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and utterly pure on the attack, with a great core of fruit, ripe, zesty acids, stunning complexity and laser-like focus on the very, very long and utterly seamless, refined finish. A tour de force of dry Saar Riesling! 2018-2045. 96. " - John Gilman
2011 Schafer-Frohlich Halenberg GG - Halenberg Grosses Gewächs- Weingut Schäfer-Fröhlich I love the Halenberg vineyard's combination of ninety percent blue slate and ten percent quartzite, which tends to give a wine of such unique and compelling aromatic and flavor profiles. The 2011 Grosses Gewächs from Weingut Schäfer-Fröhlich is a brilliant wine in the making, soaring from the glass in a blaze of lime zest, green apple, a complex base of slate, smoky overtones, tart orange, wild yeasts, petrol and just a touch of the Halenberg's cress-like herbaceousness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, very pure and complex, with stunning mid-palate depth, and utterly seamless palate impression and brilliant length and grip on the snappy, suave and endless finish. This is a totally magical young wine. 2019-2040+.96." - John Gilman
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