2021 Weingut Karl Erbes Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Mosel

Known for producing great wine for nearly 2,000 years. Urziger Wurzgarten yields dramatic wine by anyone’s measure, for this is one of the greatest places in the world to plant Riesling.

Wurzgarten (pronounced VERTS-garten) means “spice garden” and the name directly relates to the wine. In Karl Erbes’s Wurzgarten, the aromas burst from the glass with exotic, tropical spice aromas and kiwi, passionfruit, strawberries, tamarind and coconut. It is one of the steepest vineyards in all the Mosel, creating wines of punctuating depth and power. Wurzgarten is also home to some of the oldest vines in Germany, now reaching almost a century and a half, creating wines with finish that can be tasted minutes after the last glass is tasted.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM


Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - "From 75- to 85-year-old vines and picked at 90° Oechsle, the 2021 Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Spätlese was vinified in stainless steel and in fuder and fermented to 7.5% alcohol with 76 grams per liter of residual sugar. The wine offers a pure, very elegant and finely flinty, lemon-scented and tonic bouquet with remarkable elegance, substance and finesse. The striking acidity of 9.2 grams per liter is lifting all the analytical sweetness to the spheres of pure Riesling fruit and gives great elegance and finesse on the palate. This is a crystalline and saline Riesling with stimulating ripe and lush fruit and frisky mineral acidity that makes this a long-distance runner for those who are patient. The wine was aged on the full lees until April, when it was bottled. Screw cap. Tasted in July 2022. 93+"