The philosophy at Weingut Robert Weil is to combine modern ideas with the long tradition of viticulture in the Rheingau. This wine is a case in point: It’s the estate’s classic rendition of the traditional off-dry style that made the Rheingau famous. The Riesling Tradition is a cuvée from parcels that neighbor the estate’s top vineyard sites in Kiedrich. The Riesling Tradition has a complex, enveloping aroma of lush fruits, with a hint of sandalwood. It is full and juicy on the palate, with a spicy acid crackle and a long, tingling finish.

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The Estate Riesling Dry has an intense stony lemon aroma, with a firm, dense texture, well-balanced dryness and a fine fruit finish. This is a wonderfully balanced dry Riesling that pairs well with fresh fish, shellfish, roasted chicken and other lighter dishes.

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The Estate Kabinett is sourced from parcels that neighbor the estate’s classified single-vineyard sites and is made to showcase the traditional, lighter style of Riesling (no Kabinett is made from the single-vineyard sites, only Spätlese and above). Made in a medium-dry style, the Riesling Kabinett shows a fine mineral perfume and pure, spicy lemon fruit in the aroma. It is very finely balanced, with a silky, lingering finish.

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These wines come exclusively from classified vineyard sites on the steep, hillside slopes of Kiedrich.

Kiedrich Turmberg (“tower hill”), a separate slope adjacent to the Gräfenberg vineyard, is rated as premier cru. The German wine law of 1971 had incorporated Turmberg into the Gräfenberg, but in 2005 it was reinstated as an individual, classified site. The steep, southwest-facing site has a slate base with a thin topsoil layer composed of stony, gritty phyllite mixed with loess and loam. It produces very fine, elegant wines that are less massive than their counterparts from the Gräfenberg. Turmberg is wholly owned by Weingut Robert Weil. The Turmberg Trocken (dry) is bright and pure, with a lovely herbal tone that is characteristic of this site. It has a finely focused mineral structure and a juicy grip on the palate.

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The deep to medium-deep stony soil of the Gräfenberg hillside is made up of phyllite interspersed with loess and loam. The Kiedrich Gräfenberg Trocken “Erstes Gewächs” is a perfect specimen of this mineralrich terroir, displaying extremely rich character and complexity. A full-bodied, dry-style wine, it offers a provocative balance of fruit, spice and flintiness. Fermented naturally in large wooden casks, the Kiedrich Gräfenberg Erstes Gewächs has a full, stony fruit aroma. It is weighty and complex on the palate, yet still quite elegant, with extraodinary length to the finish.

The Erstes Gewächs (“first growth”) designation is used only in the Rheingau. Similar to the term Grosses Gewächs used in other German wine regions, it is reserved for the finest dry wine from a classified vineyard. Rigorous quality standards apply, and each Erstes Gewächs candidate has to be tasted and approved by the Rheingau’s governing wine board before it can be released.

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Always stunning, the Spätlese (“late picked”) from Kiedrich Gräfenberg is a massive wine of bewildering depth and complexity, with many layers of gorgeous fruit that unfold on the palate. It is a stately wine with power, harmony and impeccable balance.

The Kiedrich Gräfenberg Spätlese is enormously lush and ripe, but with a firm backbone from the elevated acidity of the vintage. It is massive and complex on the palate with deep, dense layers of fruit and a fine fruit finish that lingers endlessly.

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Robert Weil’s high-end sweet wines are regularly among the highest-rated wines in all of the world. These are mind-blowing, exceedingly rare wines that are painstakingly harvested in multiple passes through the vineyards to select out only the ripest, most concentrated grapes. The production is small, and the prices are high, but these astonishing wines are available in tiny quantities by special order. They are normally bottled in spring and sell out quickly due to intense international demand. Please inquire about current pricing and availability.

Auslese
Produced from a special selection of very ripe clusters, usually (but not always) with a fair amount of botrytis. Auslese is a lush, intensely fruity wine, with a massive, yet elegant structure. The immense sweetness is beautifully balanced by firm acidity.

Beerenauslese (BA)
The word “Beerenauslese” means “berry-selected.” The harvest workers pick individual grapes that have shriveled down about halfway, due to botrytis or the dessicating effect of the winds that flow though the Kiedrich side valley down into the larger Rhine valley.

Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA)
This is as intense as it gets. TBA is a “dried-berry selection” in which only those grapes that have completely shriveled down to raisins are selected, one by one. It is a lot of work for very little juice, but the result is the densest, most concentrated dessert wine possible. Robert Weil TBAs regularly set world record auction prices for new-release wines. The 2003 Kiedrich Gräfenberg TBA Goldkapsel is the latest example. It had a must weight of 316° Oechsle (64 Brix!) and sold for €5,117 per bottle (about $7,000 at the time) at the 2010 VDP-Rheingau auction in Kloster Eberbach.