2020 Georg Breuer Berg Schlossberg Riesling [WA96]

Producer: Georg Breuer  
Region: Rheingau, Germany  
Varietal: Riesling  
Year: 2020 

Wine Advocate, 96 Points 

"The 2020 Berg Schlossberg offers an intense and earthy bouquet with wet clayish slate and lemony as well as flinty aromas. Lush and elegant on the palate, this is a powerful, quite rich and mouth-filling Berg Schlossberg with grippy tannins, fine bitters and a long, intense and salty, very complex finish. More powerful than the 2021 and, in all its generosity and tension, a safe bet for the future." 

Winemaker Notes: 

"Schlossberg lies in the bend of the Rhine, the so-called “Binger Loch”, west of Rüdesheim and opposite Bingen and the Mäuseturm. Here, the Rhine changes direction and flows after its Rheingau East-West Intermezzo back to the north. Very steep, the rows of vines rise here with 65 percent inclination from 120 to 160 meters above sea level and are held by strong vineyard walls. The sun’s intensity in the south to southwest facing GL is high, the mountain arches towards the sun and the Rhine does as a mirror its remainder. The soils of the approximately 25 hectares of steep slope are made of Taunus quartzite and Phyllitschiefer and are quite permeable, but serve as an additional heat storage." 

Alcohol: 11.5%  

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