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2022 Steinacker GG [21 23]
£285.62 per Case
£47.60 per Bottle
£37.00 per Bottle
£222.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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Rheinhessen is a land of rolling hills, so the long, very even slope facing due south seems out of the ordinary. Which it is: forty million years ago, it was a coral reef in a prehistoric sea. It is almost pure limestone, and this makes the Knewitz wines particularly rich and taut.
Tobias Knewitz took over the twenty-five-hectare estate from his father in 2009, and together with his brother produces superbly crafted Rieslings and excellent Chardonnays, the latter well suited to the limestone soils.
Big news here: in 2021 the estate was invited to join the VDP, and from now on will be able to release their best dry wines as GGs.
2021 Vintage
The Knewitzes coped well with the drought. ‘Our grapes are small, they are marathon runners and in balance, and able to cope with the difficult conditions,’ said Tobias of 2021, and it applies equally to the 2022 vintage. Intensive green harvesting reduced vine stress, even in older parcels, and some young ones were denuded of grapes altogether to allow them to survive.
Tobias welcomed the rain – it refreshed the grapes and set the aromas free. He even tolerated it during the
harvest, as it rounded out the phenolic structure, and there was never so much that the berries split. The challenge was to preserve vitality.
He needn’t have worried: the wines are forward and bright, but they have elegance and balance, and more than enough stuffing to give pleasure for many years to come.
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£285.62 per Case
£47.60 per Bottle
£37.00 per Bottle
£222.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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