Description
The Bürklin-Wolf estate is based in the Mittelhaardt, the quality core of Germany’s world-renowned Pfalz, around the towns of Wachenheim, Forst, Deidesheim and Ruppertsberg. Here with 85ha under vine they have the largest family owned wine estate in all of Germany originating in 1597, with a treasure-trove of superb vineyards, at the centre of which lies the great Kirchenstück. Here in the tiny village of Forst, Kirchenstück and its neighbours Jesuitengarten, Ungeheuer and Pechstein, have for centuries been recognised as producing not only some of the world’s greatest dry Rieslings, but simply some of the world’s greatest wines. In the nineteenth century, prices for these wines exceeded the prices paid for 1st Growth Bordeaux and Grand Cru Burgundy.
This wine is made from younger vines of PC + GC rated vineyards in the village of Ruppertsberg, so following the re-planting of many vineyards affected by esca this contains fruit from young vines from the Gaisbohl, Reiterpfad and Hoheburg vineyards.
In 1990 Bürklin-Wolf began reviewing their vineyard holdings in the context of the 1828 Royal Bavarian Land Tax Classification and after years of exhaustive research they discovered that today’s top vineyards are substantially the same as those identified back in 1828. Today they have adopted a Burgundian model with four tiers: Estate, Village, PC (code for Premier Cru) and GC (for Grand Cru). Thus they are focussed on the production of dry, terroir-driven wines and no longer routinely produce the Kabinett and Spätlese styles defined by the (still current) 1971 German Wine Law.
“This estate has consistently produced some of the finest dry rieslings of any given vintage from an incredible arsenal of excellent vineyards. One of the first estates in Germany to embrace biodynamic viticulture, Burklin-Wolf is now able give each wine its own voice, and in 2007 they all sang in perfect tune. There are few estates in the world that could match this performance-and then throw in excellent TBAs for good measure” Stephen Tanzer
(92-93) points, Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate, August 2020. ‘The 2019 Ruppertsberger Riesling opens with a somewhat wild yet pure and thrilling bouquet of crushed stones and rather floral Riesling aromas. Lush and round on the palate, this is a charmingly fruity, refined and elegant dry Riesling with a salty-crystalline and stimulatingly piquant finish. This is already very expressive terroir Riesling and, after 2018, the second top wine for a rather moderate price. Tasted as a sample in April 2020. Drink 2023-2036.’
RRP $57 Our Price $48.99 – Last bottles
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