Ökonomierat Rebholz | Pfalz | Kastanienbusch Riesling GG | 2023 | 750ml | bio

Beschreibung

Product description for Ökonomierat Rebholz Kastanienbusch Riesling GG 2023 (bio)

Information about the Wine

West of the town of Birkweiler lies the “Kastanienbusch” vineyard on the edge of a valley basin, where it is protected from the cool winds blowing from the Palatinate Forest. Characterized by the iron-rich Oberrotliegend (Upper Rotliegend) soil, this vineyard, at 320 meters above sea level, is the highest GG vineyard in the Palatinate. The vineyard, made up of loose granite, slate, and melaphyre deposits, has a gradient of 30 to 35%. The Rebholz plots belong to the original plot of the Kastanienbusch vineyard. The wine was vinified after destemming and a 24-hour maceration period. After preliminary clarification and natural sedimentation, fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks and a six-month aging on the fine lees.

Colour

Bright lemon yellow

Nose

Rebholz’ Kastanienbusch 2023 is the best young vintage of this wine I’ve had in my glass so far. Its aroma displays plenty of spice, plenty of rock, blond tobacco, and ripe lemons, blood oranges, and grapefruit with peel. It also appears slightly grapey, rich in extract, and herbal with thyme, nettle, and calendula.

Palate

On the palate, the Kastanienbusch is quite juicy, almost drinkable, and open with white-fleshed fruit and citrus notes. The acid structure is typical of 2023, both generous and exciting. Towards the finish, the Riesling becomes increasingly taut, with a slight extract grip on the palate and exuberant minerality and saltiness. The chestnut bush appears cool, but not at all forbidding, somehow delicate, despite its superpower. It’s a great wine, that much is already clear!

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Wine Advocate

Score: 97

The Kirrweiler 2023 Kastanienbusch Riesling GG opens remarkably fine and flinty, with a stunningly tropical bouquet of just-ripe mango aromas intermingled with tea and herbal as well as rose resin and vegetal aromas. Very complex and also highly refined, it’s a beautifully intense and noble nose. Sourced from the highest, steepest and most shallow part of Rebholz’s four-hectare holdings in this 18-hectare cru, this is a remarkably pure and saline yet dense and intense, very complex Riesling from red-colored Rotliegend soils, a conglomerate of volcanic (melaphyre) rocks, slate, sand and clay. This is a fascinating, bone dry yet not ascetic but juicy and textural Riesling that is the most complete of the GGs. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in January 2025.
Stephan Reinhardt

Vinous

Score: (94-96)

The 2023 Riesling Birkweiler Kastanienbusch Grosses Gewächs grows on Permian volcanic formations. A hint of passion fruit sets a tropical note on the nose, quite aromatic with a proper crackle of flint. The palate is juicy and has a darker aspect, reminiscent of Reine Claude skins, yet it maintains a lemon edge. Riper fruit glimpses through on the finish, revealing juicy peach and ripest nectarine with a gorgeous bitterness that makes the mouth water. (Bone-dry)
— Anne Krebiehl MW
Drinking window: 2028 – 2060
Review date: Sep 2024

Producer website: https://www.oekonomierat-rebholz.com/en/