2015 Riesling Graacher Domprobst Auslese A.P. #15
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What Willi Schaefer called “a perfect four weeks” in October incorporated opportunities for picking Kabinett well into the middle of that month, a measure of how stable must weights remained. The Schaefer mentality, combined with a small surface area, means that harvest decisions are almost always meticulous, but in 2015 there was unusual luxury in that regard. “It was truly a relaxed harvest,” reported Schaefer. “After the middle of October we got a little bit of botrytis. But since the nights remained cool throughout the month, that was absolutely no problem, and in fact you could let those botrytis bunches hang for a week. The grapes remained remarkably stable.” (Not so the resulting wines, which went from Auslese to Ausverkauft – ‘sold out’ – in a matter of days.) Once again this year, there is no Grosses Gewächs. "The 2015 acids work so well for residually sweet wine, which is what we’re best known for anyway,” explained Christoph Schaefer, “and we hated to take anything away that could become outstanding Riesling Spätlese.” Not to mention that he remains committed to his father’s long-standing ideal not to enlarge the estate, thus insuring that one person and his or her immediate family can manage it (even though for now, happily, two generations collaborate). As long as that resolution holds, Weingut Schaefer will be sold out virtually overnight each vintage, so why reduce the volume of their signature wines for the sake of a Grosses Gewächs? I’m betting that particular apex of the VDP’s “pyramid” will not return to the Schaefer portfolio. (If they want to make dry Riesling, why not try making a serious stylistic statement, as I suggest in my review of this year’s lone Schaefer Riesling trocken? For considerable detail about this estate and its evolution, consult the introduction to my account of their 2014s.)
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What Willi Schaefer called “a perfect four weeks” in October incorporated opportunities for picking Kabinett well into the middle of that month, a measure of how stable must weights remained. The Schaefer mentality, combined with a small surface area, means that harvest decisions are almost always meticulous, but in 2015 there was unusual luxury in that regard. “It was truly a relaxed harvest,” reported Schaefer. “After the middle of October we got a little bit of botrytis. But since the nights remained cool throughout the month, that was absolutely no problem, and in fact you could let those botrytis bunches hang for a week. The grapes remained remarkably stable.” (Not so the resulting wines, which went from Auslese to Ausverkauft – ‘sold out’ – in a matter of days.) Once again this year, there is no Grosses Gewächs. "The 2015 acids work so well for residually sweet wine, which is what we’re best known for anyway,” explained Christoph Schaefer, “and we hated to take anything away that could become outstanding Riesling Spätlese.” Not to mention that he remains committed to his father’s long-standing ideal not to enlarge the estate, thus insuring that one person and his or her immediate family can manage it (even though for now, happily, two generations collaborate). As long as that resolution holds, Weingut Schaefer will be sold out virtually overnight each vintage, so why reduce the volume of their signature wines for the sake of a Grosses Gewächs? I’m betting that particular apex of the VDP’s “pyramid” will not return to the Schaefer portfolio. (If they want to make dry Riesling, why not try making a serious stylistic statement, as I suggest in my review of this year’s lone Schaefer Riesling trocken? For considerable detail about this estate and its evolution, consult the introduction to my account of their 2014s.)
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What Willi Schaefer called “a perfect four weeks” in October incorporated opportunities for picking Kabinett well into the middle of that month, a measure of how stable must weights remained. The Schaefer mentality, combined with a small surface area, means that harvest decisions are almost always meticulous, but in 2015 there was unusual luxury in that regard. “It was truly a relaxed harvest,” reported Schaefer. “After the middle of October we got a little bit of botrytis. But since the nights remained cool throughout the month, that was absolutely no problem, and in fact you could let those botrytis bunches hang for a week. The grapes remained remarkably stable.” (Not so the resulting wines, which went from Auslese to Ausverkauft – ‘sold out’ – in a matter of days.) Once again this year, there is no Grosses Gewächs. "The 2015 acids work so well for residually sweet wine, which is what we’re best known for anyway,” explained Christoph Schaefer, “and we hated to take anything away that could become outstanding Riesling Spätlese.” Not to mention that he remains committed to his father’s long-standing ideal not to enlarge the estate, thus insuring that one person and his or her immediate family can manage it (even though for now, happily, two generations collaborate). As long as that resolution holds, Weingut Schaefer will be sold out virtually overnight each vintage, so why reduce the volume of their signature wines for the sake of a Grosses Gewächs? I’m betting that particular apex of the VDP’s “pyramid” will not return to the Schaefer portfolio. (If they want to make dry Riesling, why not try making a serious stylistic statement, as I suggest in my review of this year’s lone Schaefer Riesling trocken? For considerable detail about this estate and its evolution, consult the introduction to my account of their 2014s.)