2014 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese feinherb

Wine Details
Producer

Kerpen

Place of Origin

Germany

Mosel

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Riesling

Vintages
Reviews & Tasting Notes

00

Drinking Window

2016 - 2022

Subscriber Access Only

or Sign Up

You'll Find The Article Name Here

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer vitae aliquam odio. Aliquam purus diam, tempor et consectetur vitae, eleifend ac quam. Proin nec mauris ac odio iaculis semper. Integer posuere pharetra aliquet. Nullam tincidunt sagittis est in maximus. Donec sem orci, vulputate ac quam non, consectetur fermentum diam. In dignissim magna id orci dignissim convallis. Integer sit amet placerat dui. Aliquam pharetra ornare nulla at vulputate. Sed dictum, mi eget fringilla lacinia, nisl tortor condimentum mi, vitae ultrices quam diam ac neque. Donec hendrerit vulputate felis, fringilla varius massa.

- By Author Name on Month Date, Year

This estate’s wines first came to prominence when as a very young man in the late 1980s Martin Kerpen took over responsibility for his family’s winery (then known as Weingut Heribert Kerpen) from his mother, a lifelong full-time schoolteacher. From the start, his wines combined generosity with considerable refinement, and high quality at this address has long extended all the way from delicate trocken to opulent T.B.A. Kerpen was especially successful in the tricky 2011 and 2013 vintages, and the 2014s seem to confirm his having reached a new level of overall excellence, not to mention his ability to surmount meteorological obstacles. If there has been an occasional weak point in Kerpen’s frequently sprawling collections, it has been an exaggerated or rustic expression of botrytis, so despite his having beaten the averages in 2014, it’s not too surprising that some of this vintage’s wines hint at aspects of botrytis that lead me to be conservative in predicting their ageabilty. Kerpen has long employed multiple stars for designating riper and ostensibly superior bottlings of Prädikats above Kabinett, although their use in 2014 is sparing, as reflects the challenges of that vintage.