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We have been lucky to have sourced this in the 2003 and 2006 vintages... and even luckier now to score the 2007, at an even lower price!
.jpg) Hexamer Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling Spätlese* 2007
Buy 3 or more pay just $31.99 per bottle!
All Else Sale $34.99
No Review - 2006 was 93 pts Wine Spectator. The 2 and 3 * 2007's are 92-93 pts Wine Spectator. 2007 is one of the highest-rated vintages of the past 30 years... better than 2006!
This is a rare treat – a perfectly aged wine, direct from the winery, at a ridiculously reasonable price. Apparently, the winery uses these library releases as a "gateway drug"... once you see the potential of these beauties to age, you are unable to resist buying the young version!
Heck, this is only $5 more than the current 2017 Spatlese is selling for! Don't ask questions, just grab it up!
"Rose, peach and lime notes weave throughout the lacy texture in this delicate white. It's deceptive in its intensity and clarity of flavor, leaving a mouthwatering impression on the finish." WS on the 2* 2007.
"The 2006 Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling Spatlese Eisendell emphasizes melons, pears, and honey, giving a rich, lush, drippingly juicy and sweet, yet delicate palate impression, and finishing with impressive refinement and wet stone, smoky, tingling intimations of minerality. It was picked in the same parcel as the dry Spatlese but a few days later, and before significant encroachment of botrytis, says Hexamer. Enjoy this beauty ideally at anywhere from 5-15 years’ age." WA on the 2006 (2008)
"The Schloßböckelheimer “Felsen” cover around 6.9 hectares, of which 4.3 hectares – without exception purely south facing – are in our possession. In the steepest area, the vineyard has a 70% gradient – a location with exceptional character.
The rock that forms the floor here, porphyrite, is weathered on the surface; together with the small and large fragments of porphyry, it forms the soil horizon that can be developed for the vines. The gray to almost black rock is enormously rich in minerals, especially calcium, but also magnesium, potassium and many other nutrients and trace elements are represented in large numbers. Together with the porphyry slope above our vineyard, the rock acts as a heat store, of course also thanks to its south-facing orientation.
The wines from the “rocks” ideally complement our Meddersheim Rieslings – with an equally pronounced but very different minerality, a very typical subtle smoky note, a lot of yellow fruits in the fragrance and a soft acidity, these wines are the perfect counterweight to our steel, quartzite embossed Meddersheim Rieslings." Winery note
(1).jpg) Or reply. The wine is available now in Chapel Hill. Friday, as ordered, in Hillsborough. | 
