Robert Weil Monte Nostrum 2022
Description
Le Monte Nostrum est fait à partir de raisins Riesling qui viennent des parcelles les plus hautes et les plus fraîches entre Turmberg et Gräfenberg, deux des meilleurs vignobles de Kiedrich, considérés comme des « grands crus » pour leur qualité. Corsé, frais et minéral, il garde une acidité vive et représente le summum des rieslings produits par Weingut Robert Weil dans le Rheingau, au nord du Rhin. Robert Weil dans le Rheingau, une région au nord du Rhin. Wilhelm Weil, le propriétaire du domaine, dit que le millésime 2022, même s'il a été difficile à cause des conditions climatiques, est l'un des meilleurs de son histoire récente grâce à sa qualité exceptionnelle et sa longue durée de vie. 
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Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
This super-racy and super-mineral dry riesling with its extremely fine white peach, wild flower and herb aromas is an archetypical expression of the steep, high-altitude vineyards of Kiedrich. Stunning crystalline finish that takes your breath away and pulls you inexorably back to the glass for more of this elixir that’s simultaneously strong and delicate. This wine used to be marketed under the name Burg Scharfensteiner. Great aging potential. Drink from release.
The 2022 Monte Nostrum follows the Burg Scharfensteiner and is congruent with this former cru whose name was canceled in 1971 and re-introduced with the 2020, yet it had to change its name due to German impeachment. The name goes back to a document from 1160 that has the Schaufenstein castle named as Castellum Monti, but this name also couldn't be used due to another veto, now from Italy. However, Monte Nostrum is the legally accepted name now, and it's a good complement to the prestigious Monte Vacano from a special plot in the Gräfenberg. The Monte Nostrum Riesling is sourced from the upper part of the Turmberg, so on pure phyllite slate, and will be sold exclusively via negociants in Bordeaux for at least 69 euros starting in September 2024. The 2022 opens with a pure, refined and coolish, stony/saline and citric bouquet of crushed stones and is remarkably precise. Lean, refined and elegant on the palate but also dense and intense, this is a pure, vibrantly fresh and mineral, savory and seriously structured Riesling from Kiedrich's coolest spot outside the forest. Sharp as a knife, it is an incomparable, very long and even concentrated yet never big or fleshy Rheingau Riesling with no similarity to any other location in the Rheingau but maybe to the Saar (Wiltingen) or, as Weil says, Breuer's Nonnenberg in term of its quiet flow. It was bottled in mid-August this year with only two grams per liter of residual sugar. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2023.
Les vins de ce domaine ont accompagné les repas des empereurs et des rois européens, qui ont adopté ce Riesling aux côtés des rouges bordelais. De nos jours, c’est Wihelm Weil, l’arrière-petit-fils du fondateur, qui est à la tête du domaine.
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