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"The most consistently brilliant winemaker in the Rheingau." Michael Broadbent
Weil's entry-level cuvée is a blend of fruit from high altitude sites--including the brilliantly named Sandgrub vineyard--dotted around the village. There's a good dollop of wine from Wasseros too (a steep, southwest facing vineyard that abuts the Gräfenberg vines). The soils of these sites are typically composed of stony, fragmented phyllite interlaced with loess and loam.
“The famous blue label of the estate has become the symbol of the highest quality of German wines. Only a few wine estates can boast such a continual and high level of overall quality.” Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve, Great Wines of the World
“Weil is widely seen as the jewel of Rheingau.” Jancis Robinson, The Financial Times
“Robert Weil has been one of the icons of German wine culture for many years. Nothing but the finest Rieslings are produced. And as more than 100 years ago, the wines are distinguished in terms of their origins and their style.”
Stephan Reinhardt, The Finest Wines of Germany
This wine has so much going for it. One of those wines where you cannot stop at one glass to satisfy the need. It starts off with a mouth/spine tingling minerality that immediately shakes up the taste buds, alerting the brain, which then tells you this is something special. Then to complement the balance, the wine ends with a slight hint of attractive sweetness. I call it the "Thai food balance", where if you get it right, both sweet and sour can be tasted, separately. A Riesling grown on the slopes amongst slatey rocks, for sure. But this is not just any Riesling, as I consider it the best entry level wine I've ever tasted, having tasted many good and bad wines over a long period of time. The downside of reviewing wines, including spirits, is that if customers take notice, the wines and spirits just "fly off the shelves."