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2015 Schafer Frohlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosse GewachsRiesling from Germany

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"Don’t you just hate Tim Fröhlich? Young, good-looking, talented, and destined for greatness... but we love him anyway, mostly for his incredible Spätlesen and top of the line ...

  • 98 John Gilman - View from the Cellar
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About

Rating:

98

“Along with a few of the GGs from Klaus-Peter Keller, the Schäfer-Fröhlich Felseneck is probably the greatest dry Riesling produced in 2015. This young wine is the stuff that legends are made from, as it soars from the glass in a blaze of grapefruit, tangerine, kaleidoscopic slate minerality, a touch of lavender, wild yeasts, citrus peel, dried flowers and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and laser-like in focus, with a rock solid core, great cut and grip and a very long, seamless, nascently complex and electric finish. Sheer brilliance. 2024-2065.” -John Gilman

Product Description:

"Don’t you just hate Tim Fröhlich? Young, good-looking, talented, and destined for greatness... but we love him anyway, mostly for his incredible Spätlesen and top of the line grosses gewächs wines, which we beg to get a few cases of each year. Although the wines have been very fine since the ‘90s when Tim took over his parents’ estate, we feel that 2006 was the breakthrough year when he achieved a level of breathtaking elegance and poise in his wines that only a few estates ever reach. The 2007s and 2008s were even greater collections; the wines are absolutely electrifying.

Low yields, great sites, painstaking vineyard management, perfectionism in the cave, and a veritable lust for minerality are the hallmarks of the style here. As for the most recent vintages from 2009 onward.... dare we say it? Schäfer- Fröhlich is making Rieslings as great—and in some instances better than—any producers in the Nahe. They are some of the most impressive and exciting white wines crafted anywhere." -John Gilman

“Tim Fröhlich was in an extremely good mood as he pulled back the curtain on his stunning range of 2015ers.... The first Riesling grapes for the dry wines were brought in on the 10th of October this year and parcels were collected as they reached optimum ripeness over the course of the next thirty days, with the very last selections for the GG bottlings being brought in over the course of the first ten days in November. Contrast this with the harvest of 2014, when everything had be to be brought in between the 29th of September and the 19th of October, due to inclement weather and the pressure of rot and it is easy to imagine how much more relaxed the picking was here in 2015. Given fully six weeks to harvest in leisurely and precise fashion, it is not surprising that each and every Schäfer-Fröhlich 2015er that I tasted was showing beautifully and this seems likely to be one of the greatest vintages in the career (thus far) of Tim Fröhlich" -Importer

Product Detail

Item # 96006
Country Germany
Region Nahe
Sub-Region Nahe
Ratings

98 - John Gilman - View from the Cellar

Vintage 2015
Color White
ABV 12.0%
Varietal(s) Riesling
Size 750mL
Closure Cork
Features
Taste apple, pear, peach, apricot and honey
Nose petrol, flint, rose petal, violet, orange peel, apple, pear and peach