- The 2018 Riesling Fruhmesse Trocken Sold Out Before We Could Get a Bottle
2019 Juwel Riesling Fruhmesse Trocken
- Her Most Keller-Like Wine
- A Fass Cult Favorite
- One of the Top Sites in the Rheinhessen
- Please Buy Enough to Hold Some for 5 Years
- You Cannot Believe How Well Made This Is
- Julianne Has Made "The Leap" - This is Elite Dry Riesling
- Nose A Complex Monster of Minerality
- Borders on Tensile
- Palate: Elevated but in Balance Acidity
- Impossibly Complex
- Insane Concentration on the Finish
- The Minerality Is Absolutely Piercing
- "GG" For Under $40
This Is An Important Offer - Here's Why
Klaus Peter Keller is without a doubt the Jean-Marc Roulot, the Jeremy Seysses of Germany. He has a small number of famous proteges and today's winemaker is one of the most important. She has shot to the top of a small list of superstar German winemakers and we are lucky to represent her. Very lucky.
Klaus Peter Keller's style is one of stunning precision combined with a hidden density. It's not mostly wall of flavor wine but a remarkable polished elegance with a velvet glove of density.
Julienne learned well from the master and crated her own style that is Kelleresque but also, uniquely, her own.
- Her wines have the Keller precision and velvet glove density
- But there is a freshly powdered mineral element to them as well
- They shimmer with delicacy but also have super Fassy acidity and freshness.
These wines are almost Champagne-like in their mineral density and citrus perfume. You don't have
Julienne has yet to join the German trade association (the VDP, which sets minimum prices) and her wines are still stunning values. 2019 is looking to be a heralded vintage. This is a wine that will age wonderfully.
The 2019 Vintage
2019 has much lower yields than in 2018 and just a stunningly perfect balance between fruit ripeness, dense yet delicate minerals and high, stable acidity. The energy and compactness cannot be believed.
From what little that I have tasted 2019 is just an iota above 2018 in terms of precision and terroir expression. This is because it was a cooler vintage overall. There is a ton off buzz in Germany about the vintage and it's looking to be a very important one.
Germany's "It" Winery
Even 7.5 years into Fass Selections I drop the ball every now and then and I totally missed the 2018 Juwel Riesling Fruhmesse which is her "GG." She sold out in less than 3 weeks at the winery and it was before she was scheduled on our yearly planner. I underestimated her popularity in Germany, but I knew that after the breathtaking 2017 Fruhmesse the 2018 would be snatched up quickly. I had no idea how quickly. Julianne is hugely popular in Germany. 25,000 Instagram followers for a brand new winery in Germany is insanely impressive. Combine all that with Julianne being one of the best young winemakers in all of Germany and the stuff sells out fast and I'm not letting it happen again.
The Wine
I don't want anybody to lose out. Enter the 2019 Juwel Riesling Fruhmesse Trocken for $39.99 a bottle on a 4-pack. Our first 2019 offer.
This is when you know you are in the presence of talent. One sniff and sip of this gorgeous, energetic and chiseled Riesling and you will not be able to taste or think about anything else. This site really lets Julianne show her talent at making elite dry Riesling from a top terroir.
The nose is a complex monster of minerality and small just barely ripe exotic tropical fruits but bordering on tensile. Confectionary and rocky minerality. Citrus pith. Apricot. There is
honey, tangelo and apricot. Floral and spicy with so much forceful minerality. It is so unique and so enticing. What a glorious nose. Smoke, confection, flint, rock candy. Something you can smell for minutes on end and discover new nuances. Impossibly complex like a potpourri painted by Seurat. Honeyed. Citrus. Herbal. Savory. Gorgeous. So complete and enveloping. Just an amazing nose. Nuanced and detailed. Top. Top.
Palate is so suave. Wow. This has incredible texture and finishes with beautiful, elevated but in balance acidity that takes this to the next level. Wow. Electrifying. Really beautiful purity and so chiseled. Clean like spring water. Dense structure braces you on the finish. Really pure. Really clean. Sappy, salty, just incredible. Taught and precise. Most Keller-like showing of her wines yet. Briliant. Tangy pure citrus fruits pop on the finish but this is stunningly mineral driven wine. Expertly made.
Tremendous grip and almost feather-like finesse and purity of the vintage with its dramatic yet delicate fruit intensity which matches so well with the precise, weightless and finesse-driven style of Julianne's wines. Insane flavor hierarchy and delineation and huge crescendo of a mineral finish. So dense and so structured. Just awesome. The minerality here is absolutely piercing.
Then there is the texture. Texture is something we don't talk about enough in Riesling. I think Riesling has the best texture of any white wine in the world. Julianne's Frühmesse has that opulence that is an echo of Klaus-Peter Keller but also an inviting fine grained minerality that infuses the texture to make it standout. And with age the texture only gets better.
It finishes with beautiful, elevated but in balance acidity that takes this to the next level. Wow. Electrifying. Really beautiful purity and so chiseled. Clean like spring water. Dense structure braces you on the finish. Really pure. Really clean. Sappy, salty, just incredible. Taught and precise.
One of the great values of the 2019 vintage I will offer. GG quality for under $40? This is becoming a Fass cult favorite.
I have had four vintages now of this utterly brilliant wine and the 2019 is the best effort yet. Julianne has taken the leap! She is true elite level. This is a deeply structured wine that really takes time to unravel and I'm very bullish on the aging curve of the Riesling Frühmesse. I think this is a 15-20 year wine. Each vintage I've had (15,16,17,19) is nowhere near ready and they typically do not show at their peak when they are just landed. I find the Frühmesse needs 3-4 months (ideally longer) to start to show what it's made of after we deliver. And what amazing material it is made of. There is a brilliant pithiness to all the fruit in the Frühmesse.
2019 Juwel Fruhmesse Riesling Trocken - $41.99 ($159.96 4-pack) (*Including Tariff of $4.42) (LIMITED)
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