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Keller Riesling G-Max 2022

Riesling from Rheinhessen, Germany
JG 100
JS 100
CT 97-98
WA 95
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Item # 349868

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$1,750.00

750ml
Pre-arrival (ETA: Apr 2025) 1 Available
 
100 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "I had the pleasure this year to share a bit of the 2022 G-Max with my adult children during our tasting, who I had told about the wine previously, but who had never tasted it. My son’s girlfriend, who has an outstanding palate, simply commented “this is the best-balanced, smoothest white wine I have ever tasted in my life” and she was absolutely correct! The inherent elegance of the 2022 vintage is a perfect foil for the G-Max, as the wine offers up a magical bouquet of tart orange, pink grapefruit, a complex foundation of chalky minerality, wild yeasts, citrus blossoms and incipient smokiness as a gentle topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, precise, full-bodied and seamless, with a gorgeous core of fruit, brilliant transparency down to the limestone soil, bouncy acids and superb balance on the long, complex and vibrant finish. This is a simply flawless young wine. 2037-2085. (Jul/Aug 2024)"

100 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "Explosive youthful freshness! A shimmering interplay of flintiness with fine stone and exotic fruit aromas drags you into this immensely concentrated, medium-bodied dry riesling which has breathtaking energy and minerality. Fantastic lime freshness at the almost endless finish. Decades of aging potential. Drink from release. At the Keller G-Max vertical tasting. (3/22/24)"

97 points CellarTracker.com community score.

95+ points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2022 Riesling G-Max is very clear, fresh and reductive on the concentrated, fruity as well as enormously complex nose, showing lime and citrus notes. Full-bodied and elegant on the palate, with fine tannins and salty grip, this is a purist but also intense, juicy and stimulating Riesling that will need some time to live up to its reputation. Since I tasted this wine at the domaine, I couldn't taste it after a while of aeration, but I should taste it again in a G-Max vertical next year. So, stay tuned until next spring. Tasted in July 2023. Drink: 2026-2036. (12/29/23)"

19/20 points Julia Harding, MW (JancisRobinson.com): "Tank sample. 'Dedicated to great grandfather George', explains Klaus Peter Keller, 'who bottled the first Keller Riesling in 1921, and our son Max.' They have never revealed which vineyards this wine comes from.Sour-salty citrus with an eye-watering mineral purity. Much more precise and tighter than any G-Max I have tasted before. Less ripe, less raw power, more arrow-like, more refined, more spicy/mineral. Immense length. For my personal taste, this is the best G-Max I have tasted. Drinking Window: 2029-2042. (3/18/23)"
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100 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "I had the pleasure this year to share a bit of the 2022 G-Max with my adult children during our tasting, who I had told about the wine previously, but who had never tasted it. My son’s girlfriend, who has an outstanding palate, simply commented “this is the best-balanced, smoothest white wine I have ever tasted in my life” and she was absolutely correct! The inherent elegance of the 2022 vintage is a perfect foil for the G-Max, as the wine offers up a magical bouquet of tart orange, pink grapefruit, a complex foundation of chalky minerality, wild yeasts, citrus blossoms and incipient smokiness as a gentle topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, precise, full-bodied and seamless, with a gorgeous core of fruit, brilliant transparency down to the limestone soil, bouncy acids and superb balance on the long, complex and vibrant finish. This is a simply flawless young wine. 2037-2085. (Jul/Aug 2024)"

100 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "Explosive youthful freshness! A shimmering interplay of flintiness with fine stone and exotic fruit aromas drags you into this immensely concentrated, medium-bodied dry riesling which has breathtaking energy and minerality. Fantastic lime freshness at the almost endless finish. Decades of aging potential. Drink from release. At the Keller G-Max vertical tasting. (3/22/24)"

97 points CellarTracker.com community score.

95+ points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2022 Riesling G-Max is very clear, fresh and reductive on the concentrated, fruity as well as enormously complex nose, showing lime and citrus notes. Full-bodied and elegant on the palate, with fine tannins and salty grip, this is a purist but also intense, juicy and stimulating Riesling that will need some time to live up to its reputation. Since I tasted this wine at the domaine, I couldn't taste it after a while of aeration, but I should taste it again in a G-Max vertical next year. So, stay tuned until next spring. Tasted in July 2023. Drink: 2026-2036. (12/29/23)"

19/20 points Julia Harding, MW (JancisRobinson.com): "Tank sample. 'Dedicated to great grandfather George', explains Klaus Peter Keller, 'who bottled the first Keller Riesling in 1921, and our son Max.' They have never revealed which vineyards this wine comes from.Sour-salty citrus with an eye-watering mineral purity. Much more precise and tighter than any G-Max I have tasted before. Less ripe, less raw power, more arrow-like, more refined, more spicy/mineral. Immense length. For my personal taste, this is the best G-Max I have tasted. Drinking Window: 2029-2042. (3/18/23)"
Product SKU 349868
Producer Keller
Country Germany
Region Rheinhessen
Varietal Riesling
Designation Grosses Gewachs|Trocken / Dry
Vintage 2022
Size 750ml
Color White
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