CAI - Riesling Kabinett Trocken (22)

Riesling | selectie van oude stokkenuit de Dhroner Hofberg en voor 20% uit de Saar | vergist op rvs zonder additieven | 1,5 gram restzoet | fris kruidig | smokey | citrus | super zuiver | zacht fruit | 10,5% alcohol | Kabinett trocken | wijn vernoemd naar de grondlegger van Immich-Batterieberg Carl Anton Immich, die volgens het verhaal met een kanon de rotsen heeft vrij gemaakt voor wijnbouw

Immich Batterieberg

De man achter de wijnen van Immich-Batterieberg is Gernot Kollman. Na stages bij Dr.Loosen, van Volxem en 4 jaar bij Weingut Knebel, besloot hij in 2009 het toen failliete wijngoed Immich Batterieberg te kopen om daar zijn eigen wijn te produceren. Gernot staat bekend om zijn fraaie beendroge stijl Riesling die hij spontaan vergist op eikenhouten voeders in de Mosel. Minder restzoet, maar een spatzuivere, energieke levendige wijn met een betere expressie van de wijngaard. Een Riesling met enorme klasse!

Review

Picked from the first until the last day of the harvest on October 25, Immich's 2022 Riesling Kabinett Trocken CAI opens with a clear and very intense stone fruit and blossom aroma that is almost reminiscent of Pfalz Rieslings due to its supple ripeness and fleshy concentration. Very elegant and refined on the palate, this is a pure, light, crystalline and saline, rather lean but seriously intense and aromatic Mosel Riesling made with fruit sourced from several vineyards between Dhroner Hofberg and the coolish, east-facing sites of Burg, though the main part comes certainly from Enkirch. 37,000 bottles were filled in June 2023; 10.5% stated alcohol (and 3.4 grams per liter of residual sugar). Screw cap. Tasted in early July 2023. 91/100 Stephan Reinhardt

Operations manager Gernot Kollmann describes 2020 as "beautiful" and "only at the end [a] wet year" for the Mosel domain Immich-Batterieberg. The harvest began at the beginning of October but stretched with weather-related interruptions until the end of the month. In the Herzchen, as well as in the Steffensberg, Kollmann had to work in some plots with botrytis, all other sites, however, remained healthy until the end, also because the barren steep slopes are less supplied with nitrogen after the dry summers. The great Rieslings are still in the barrels in September, but the first heralds from 2020 are ravishingly fine and elegant, above all the Escheburg, an assemblage of the estate's best sites.