2002 Georg Breuer Rüdesheimer Berg Roseneck Riesling

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This bottle was bought in Bremen one month ago at the Bremer Ratskeller, which is the wine shop in the townhall of the hanseatic city of Bremen. As such, it’s the only wineshop I know which is housed in a world heritage site.

Georg Breuer is in my opinion the best producer of dry Riesling in the Rheingau.

The Roseneck is a single vineyard wine from the vineyard of Roseneck in the village of Rüdesheim. The yield for this vineyard is 15 hl/ha. To put things in perspective, the VDP, which is the association of quality producers in Germany, allows yields as high as 50 hl/ha for the Grosse Gewächse (GG), which are comparable to a French “Grand Cru” and are the highest rung of the quality ladder. No wonder that the quality-obsessed late Bernhard Breuer left the VDP. (But the Roseneck is not the flagship vineyard of Georg Breuer, this place is reserved for the Schloßberg.)

The cork totally disintegrated while opening this bottle, but my usual tea-filter helped me out here.

Golden brown, smells of maderisation (it’s not petrol notes, it’s similar, but not really the same, I don’t use this word in the meaning of overmature and dull, but in the sense of an aged taste in a good 40 year old VP), it also smells mineral and slightly of apricot, in the mouth there is this maderisation and minerality, a very full body, not much acidity, dry, but not in a tart way, in the aftertaste there is a slightly bitter apricot note, a very long finish of at least 30 seconds (we drank a lesser wine after this and the Roseneck even dominated the second one). The Roseneck has 12,5% ABV, but with it’s full body and flavour profile, one get’s the sensation it’s stronger than that. It was quite interesting to drink this wine, but I personally would prefer younger, lighter and crisper Rieslings.

[djewesbury]

This bottle was bought in Bremen one month ago at the Bremer Ratskeller, which is the wine shop in the townhall of the hanseatic city of Bremen. As such, it’s the only wineshop I know which is housed in a world heritage site.

There are wine shops on the Ribeira in Porto. They must count…

[LGTrotter]

This bottle was bought in Bremen one month ago at the Bremer Ratskeller, which is the wine shop in the townhall of the hanseatic city of Bremen. As such, it’s the only wineshop I know which is housed in a world heritage site.

There are wine shops on the Ribeira in Porto. They must count…

I've been drunk on cider at Stonehenge. Does this count?

[djewesbury]

This bottle was bought in Bremen one month ago at the Bremer Ratskeller, which is the wine shop in the townhall of the hanseatic city of Bremen. As such, it’s the only wineshop I know which is housed in a world heritage site.

There are wine shops on the Ribeira in Porto. They must count…

I've been drunk on cider at Stonehenge. Does this count?

I should say so!
We're spoiling André's tasting note. I like the sound of this producer and would like to visit them in August!

[LGTrotter]

We're spoiling André's tasting note.

No, we're filling it out. And Lyme Regis beach, obvs.