by Saina » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:39 pm
Keller Riesling "von der Fels" 2018 - 12% abv; 35€ (ouch! double what it costs in Germany!)
Ok, this is pretty good stuff. I was afraid, remembering the summer temperatures in Germany, that this would be soft, fruity and very possibly disjointed by excessive fruit and inadequate acidity - I was essentially expecting a 2003 clone. Instead it was intense, properly acidic and, I must be hallucinating, elegant. Elegant is not a word I tend to use with hot year wines. Or do I just misremember when the heatwave hit Germany? Was it not 2018 where the 40 Celsius mark was broken? Anyway, buy again? Nope. Not at Finnish prices. At German prices, where this could be found for under 20€ I would buy more.
I don't drink wine because of religious reasons ... only for other reasons.