Original: $215.00
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$75.25The Story
Mind-blowing spiciness hits you when your nose enters the glass. Enormous flinty energy is married to a compact and super-chalky structure on the electrifying palate. Super-long and focused finish that doesn’t want to stop. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification. Drinkable now, but best from 2024.
98 points - Stuart Pigott, JamesSuckling.com
Bottled earlier on the day I tasted it (!), the 2022 Kirchspiel Westhofen Riesling GG is pure, intense and refined but also untamed on the chalky nose. Silky, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a rather lean, enormously saline Kirchspiel with a citric finish. This is a radiant and puristic limestone Riesling with salivating salinity and piquancy on the finish. The wine is tight, fresh and citric, or Wittmann's alternative to the purest Chablis. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2023. Drink 2028-2045.
95 points - Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
The 2022 Riesling Westhofener Kirchspiel Grosses Gewächs is from this east-facing site, with just 30cm of topsoil on limestone. A slight reduction marks the shy nose. The palate is slender but concentrated. A notion of green and yellow apple peel insinuates itself on the textured palate, presenting apple skin - perhaps this wine's guise of the phenolics - alongside the mouthwatering fruit that hovers between apple and citrus and a notion of lemon balm. The mid-palate is concentrated, very straight-shooting, linear and driven. The 2022 is cooling and has much energy. (Bone-dry) Drink 2028-2050.
94 points - Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
Description
Mind-blowing spiciness hits you when your nose enters the glass. Enormous flinty energy is married to a compact and super-chalky structure on the electrifying palate. Super-long and focused finish that doesn’t want to stop. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification. Drinkable now, but best from 2024.
98 points - Stuart Pigott, JamesSuckling.com
Bottled earlier on the day I tasted it (!), the 2022 Kirchspiel Westhofen Riesling GG is pure, intense and refined but also untamed on the chalky nose. Silky, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a rather lean, enormously saline Kirchspiel with a citric finish. This is a radiant and puristic limestone Riesling with salivating salinity and piquancy on the finish. The wine is tight, fresh and citric, or Wittmann's alternative to the purest Chablis. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2023. Drink 2028-2045.
95 points - Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
The 2022 Riesling Westhofener Kirchspiel Grosses Gewächs is from this east-facing site, with just 30cm of topsoil on limestone. A slight reduction marks the shy nose. The palate is slender but concentrated. A notion of green and yellow apple peel insinuates itself on the textured palate, presenting apple skin - perhaps this wine's guise of the phenolics - alongside the mouthwatering fruit that hovers between apple and citrus and a notion of lemon balm. The mid-palate is concentrated, very straight-shooting, linear and driven. The 2022 is cooling and has much energy. (Bone-dry) Drink 2028-2050.
94 points - Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
