Riesling Feinherb, Yellow Seal, Schloss Johannisberg 2024
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Why this wine
This is Riesling from the vineyard where the grape's German story effectively begins — planted to Riesling alone since 1720, and the site where Spätlese was discovered. Feinherb is the style most German drinkers keep for themselves: a touch of sugar for weight, high acidity to keep it taut, and the result handles spice and richness that a bone-dry white would fight. Yellow Seal is the estate's classic bottling, which makes it the sensible way into a famous address.
At a glance
- Grape
- Riesling
- Region
- Rheingau, Germany
- Alcohol
- 12.50%
- Body
- Full
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Off-Dry
- Drink
- Medium (5-10 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Spicy Dishes, Poultry & Pork, Seafood
How it tastes
Grapefruit, apple and lychee, with a green lift of fresh grass behind the fruit. Off-dry rather than sweet: the sugar is there for weight and the acidity holds it in line, so it finishes clean. Full in texture, creamy at the end, and long. Riesling 100%.
The producer
Schloss Johannisberg was planted solely with Riesling in 1720, making it the world's first Riesling estate, and it was here in 1775 that Spätlese was discovered from late-picked grapes touched by noble rot; Auslese, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese followed from the estate in 1787. The vineyard is a single-site designation in its own right, one of a handful in Germany that need not name a village on the label: a steep south-facing slope of 45 degrees between 114 and 181 metres, sheltered from northerly winds by the Taunus forest above and warmed by the Rhine below, on Taunus quartz topped with loam and loess that holds both moisture and heat. It is worked and picked entirely by hand. The grapes were selected and pressed in whole clusters, 85% fermented slowly and cool with wild yeast in stainless steel and 15% in 1,200-litre casks made from estate-grown oak.
Food and drinking
Serve at 10–12°C. Good with roast pork belly, Thai green curry, smoked mackerel, or a washed-rind cheese. Drinking well now and through to around 2032. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.