Riesling Réserve vom Rotliegenden “Treasure Collection” 2018

Let us consider this exceptional wine: The 2018 Riesling Réserve has an overwhelming elegance and beauty that reflects the very special essence of Rhine wines. The carefully ripened and hand-harvested Riesling grapes provide its full structure, while the soil, strongly marked by clay slate, gives it its incomparable finesse and structure. This Riesling opens the gates to the fascinating world of terroir wines from the Kühling-Gillot winery. Its aromas combine the best that ripened grapes have to offer: deliciously fruity notes, sensual juiciness, dense extracts and an amazing complexity. It is a tribute to the famous Roter Hang in Nierstein.

Consider the wine's radiant, luminous golden yellow, flecked with hints of green. The nose reveals a complex minerality that is still hesitant despite the perceptibly advanced maturity of the Riesling. You will be intrigued by its smoky, stony palette and seductive aromas of juicy ripe apricots, apples and orange peel, accompanied by a light touch of ginger and an abundance of meadow herbs. It awakens an irresistible longing to indulge and taste this liquid.

With its determined, pronounced precision and salty minerality, it literally flows over the tongue, its style enticing and stimulating, every sip an experience. It is an expressive, immensely complex Riesling, and is just at the beginning of its drinking maturity, with the promise to surprise and delight us even more as it matures. Enjoy it carefully aerated to unlock its full potential. Add to this a first-class price-performance ratio.

As a food recommendation: Try with it a creamy avocado tartare with Anjou pear and local wild herbs, a fine char tartare with a salsa of cucumber and borage, served with fresh ciabatta, or lightly fried prawns accompanied by a green risotto with garlic slaw, spinach and butter beans.