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Georg Albrecht Schneider

This Nierstein estate has long enjoyed a fine reputation, so I rather sheepishly rummaged in my records trying to figure out when I last tasted one of its wines. (I sold a few of them, and visited the estate, back in the late 1980s and sampled wines on several occasions in the decade that followed.) Having been forced by his father’s early death to take over his family’s estate while still a teen, Albrecht Schneider had racked up more than 40 vintages by the time he passed the reins to his daughter and son-in-law in 2011. Now seemed like a good time – not to mention long past time – to assess matters at this estate, although in the end I had to limit myself to some sample bottles supplied by the US importer of long standing. No doubt largely on account of its export profile, the Schneider winery was something of a holdout into the 21st century in retaining an emphasis on residual sweetness, including among wines from Riesling, whose acreage, while nowadays inching up, still accounts for barely more than half of the property’s vine surface. Not surprisingly, today dry wines outnumber sweet, as they did among the samples I received. (Moreover, the dry wines among those were my favorites.) During the 1990s, Schneider “modernized” by moving to stainless steel tanks as primary vinificatory vessels; it will be interesting to see whether that too is something the new generation modifies.

From Rheinhessen Riesling 2016: The Triumph of Subtlety (May 2018) by David Schildknecht

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2016 Riesling Vom Rotliegenden trocken

Release Price: $20

Color: White

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