Riesling Seeberg Kamptal DAC 2016

Description

Softer, rounder and weightier than the other single vineyard Rieslings. Fresh with an herb & spice note. The fruit needs time and air; then comes tones of citrus and orange, and more and more peach. A cool backbone. Juicy and elegant with grip; salty and contoured with generous citrus on the back palate. Powerful, juicy and long.

Awards

94 pts Wine Enthusiast Points

Vinification

1/3 of the grapes were destemmed and soaked on the skins for 48 hours; 2/3 of the grapes (whole bunches) spent 12 hours in the closed press.

Vineyard

The Seeberg lies directly across from the Heiligenstein. In both vineyard sites there is, almost without exception, Riesling. There may be only about one kilometer between their terraces, yet the two are as far apart in geological and sensory terms than as if they were in different hemispheres.

The vines on the Seeberg are south-facing. There is no lack of light and sun here, yet the harvest is usually late in the season. This is a result of the continuously blowing north wind, which provides a cooling counterpoint in the vineyards and keeps the acidity and tension high in the grapes.

Maturation

20 months on the fine lees in big barrels; 16 months in the bottle