Riesling Lenchen Auslese 2021 375ml

Wine Description for Riesling Lenchen Auslese VDP Grosse Lage 2021 375ml by Peter Jakob Kühn

Colour & Appearance

Luminous, sparkling golden yellow with delicate green reflections – a wine that already promises elegance and vibrancy in the glass.

Nose

The nose is an invitation: mango, vineyard peach and ripe apple meld with candied lemon into an intoxicatingly fruity bouquet. Beneath lies a precise, penetrating minerality – almost saline, almost stony – lending depth and tension to the whole. With increasing age, this mineral vein will gain further intensity.

Palate

On the palate, the Auslese unfolds with generous, creamy fruit fullness and a refreshing, precise acidity that never yields to the sweetness. The interplay between sweetness and acidity is masterfully balanced – not a gram of residual sugar too much, no sharpness that disturbs. With just 7.5% alcohol, the wine feels feather-light and invigorating at once.

Finish

Long, fresh and characterised by a fine mineral-fruity persistence. The finish concludes with delicate notes of citrus peel and white peach – elegant and unobtrusive.

Terroir & Origin

The Grosse Lage Lenchen in Oestrich-Winkel owes its name to the gentle south-westerly slope along the Pfingstbach. Fertile clayey loess, interspersed with iron-rich red quartzite veins – once known under the old vineyard name “Eiserberg” – decisively shapes the character of this terroir. The early morning mists of the Pfingstbach favour the formation of Botrytis Cinerea and create ideal conditions for noble sweet wines of distinction.

Grape Variety & Vinification

Pure Riesling, spontaneously fermented and aged in stainless steel – a vinification that preserves the purity of the fruit and the precision of the acidity unadulterated. Bottled in spring 2022 in the classic 375 ml bottle, which is perfectly suited for noble sweet wines of this calibre.

Food Recommendations

A versatile companion: Wonderful with a tartlet of burrata, tomatoes and peach with ginger jelly, equally convincing with a spicy prawn, mango and avocado salad with mint and coriander. To conclude a menu: the soufflé of fresh cheese on rhubarb and strawberries – a combination that perfectly reflects the wine’s acidity-sweetness balance.

Special Features

A wine that already brings great pleasure today, but has the potential to gain complexity and mineral depth over many years. VDP Grosse Lage – the highest classification of the German Wine Institute – underscores the ambition of this extraordinary Rheingau Riesling.