REICHSRAT VON BUHL UNGEHEUER RIESLING GG
Phenomenal high end Riesling. Very fine and very good to age, if you can fight the temptation to open it.
Pfalz, Germany
2021
12.5% ABV.
100% Riesling
75cl
£49.95
Price includes VAT
Tasting notes:
You could almost blindly recognize this 2021 as a monster, because it has this somewhat loud, exciting smokiness together with brilliant spice, black, flinty minerality. Tonic, almost earthy, black-reddish with great density. Strong spontaneous nose and then a lot of stone. Some anise, coriander seeds, light tobacco, some bitter almond. Very puristic on the palate then salty lemon and sparse stonyness combined with more vibrant acidity. That's an extremely high level of straight-line stability in the mouth. The wine has tremendous pull and will later become an extremely elegant, fine wine. Amazingly good. 97-98+/100 - Heiner Lobenberg
About the wine:
The site Forster Ungeheuer is one of the most distinctive and well-known vineyards of the palatinate. There powerful and long-lasting wines with a spicy minerality are produced. When Reich Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck visited Deidesheim at the end of the 1880s as a guest of the Vice President of the Reichstag, the owner of the winery Franz Armand Buhl, he said: "This Ungeheuer tastes monstrous to me." Von Buhl is the sole owner of the original plot Ungeheuer, which served as eponyms for the VDP.Große Lage.
Complex, this is the best description of the soil structure in the much vaunted site in the Mittelhaardt: typical sandstone weathering soils with more dense clay and sand layers, partially offset with amounts of limestone. Basalt rock provides the vines with the necessary heat and mineral character. A massive limestone plate at a depth of approx. 2 m provides a very efficient water supply. The sum of all factors is the reason for the power and length of the wines from the Ungeheuer.
About the producer:
The winery Reichsrat von Buhl has over 150 years of family ownership and belonged just as long to the group of the most prestigious wineries in Germany. Since its foundation in 1849, Reichsrat von Buhl has been an embossed terroir, a timeless style, which has never been oriented towards fashion, but always to the origin of its grapes from the best Deidesheimer and Forster layers in it. The winery Reichsrat von Buhl is a certified organic farm with active ambassadors of natural, sustainable viticulture and best German wines. Since the year 2013, a new team led by managing director Richard Grosche, technical director Mathieu Kauffmann and long-term external manager Werner Sebastian is responsible for the wines.
