Schätzel | Rheinhessen | Steiner Riesling 17-22 | NV | 750ml

Description

Product description for Schätzel Steiner Riesling 17-22 NV Kai Schätzel sees his approach as a response to the challenges climate change poses to viticulture. Back in 2008, he began cultivating his vineyards on the Roter Hang using sustainable, organic, and biodynamic methods to cultivate self-sufficient and healthy vines. This includes slowing the ripening process and bringing the mountains into balance through dry farming. The grapes for the wines are harvested according to the ‘golden cut’ principle he developed himself. Around 90-100 days after flowering, the grapes are harvested in several rounds, precisely when their colour changes from green to golden yellow. In the winery, the grapes are trodden underfoot before being left to rest on the skins for a week and then pressed. In a good 80% of all cases, no preclarification is carried out before the must is transferred by gravity into single-barrel and half-barrel barrels, where it begins to ferment spontaneously and remains on the full lees until bottling. The 17-22 comes from a solera from 2017 to 2022, meaning individual batches were matured individually in half-barrels, and then all vintages were placed together in a 5,000-liter barrel. Half of this was filled in the fall, unfiltered, unfined, and unsulfured; the other half is used as a solera mother and topped up with 23-year-old reserves. The wine is reductively matured on flor yeast and is not affected by oxygen.

Colour

Rich straw yellow with a satin-matt opacity.

Nose

The nose of the 17-22 is a pure firework: Fine flor yeasts, roasted nuts, and almonds mingle with the scent of freshly baked bread at 4 a.m. on the way home. Added to this are herbal notes of chamomile and stone fruit of green and yellow apple. The generally mellow aromas and complete absence of bold fruit quickly bring you back down to earth and draw your lips expectantly toward the glass.

Palate

On the first sip, a silky, creamy texture and juicy melt. The orchestral acidity stretches brightly across the throat, underpinned by fine yeast, creating a full-bodied, fluffy, and cottony-soft palate. Structurally defined around the vertical acidity, it gives it its specific feel, lightness, and rapid pace. An ethereally cool finish with a long aftertaste.

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