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Jon Bonné: "Weller-Lehnert is one of the best small producers in Piesport." --- Restaurant Wine, Issue "The amphitheater of the Goldtröpfchen vineyard is one of the greatest sites in the Middle Mosel, producing Rieslings with baroque fruit aromas and a firm natural sweetness to balance." --- Clarke & Spurier's Fine Wine Guide, The ultimate reference to the world's best wines. "Fine Mosels are light, lovely, poetic, and very, very seductive. A first rate Mosel has a pale platinum color with a tint of green, an expansive flowery scent and a soft, juicy-ripe flavor balanced by a refreshing acidity and a delicate 'spritz'. Such a lyrical mouthful will banish
anyone's doubts that a wine can legitimately be called 'charming'. --- Thinking About Wine by Elin McCoy and John Frederick Walker |
The
classic vineyards of Piesport have been surrounded by a lake
of insipid wines since the 1971 German Wine Law allowed this
name to be used for regional bottlings with none of the quality
or character of the
Of the 13.6 acres of vineyard, 4.5 are in the Goldtröpfchen, and all the Goldtröpfchen is riesling. In most vintages, the total production is 50,000 bottles, of which the proprietors select about 35,000 to bottle under the estate label. The style is fruity rather than dry (the fermentation is stopped, as the policy of the estate is not to add suessreserve to a dry wine). Weller-Lehnert's Goldtröpfchens demonstrate this style with plentiful, distinctive fruit. It's light and floral in the Kabinetts; fuller, with lovely tart red currant tones in the Spätleses; and super-ripe, tending toward apricot, in the classic weighty Ausleses. It's a pleasure to taste the real thing from Piesport! --- Wine & Spirits Buying Guide Reviews
Weller-Lehnert Riesling Weller-Lehnert Riesling --- Restaurant Wine, Issue #100 Perfectly aged, top-quality Mosel Rieslings @ (K)abinett, 750ml (S)pätlese, 750ml (A)uslese, 750ml Wines
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The Weller-Lehnert estate
has been in the hands of the same family for eight generations.
Current proprietor Petra Hain-Matheus is the grand-daughter of
Peter Weller, who managed the estate from 1935 to '71; her father,
Karl Hain (Peter's son-in-law), was at the helm through '91, after
which Petra began to take control. She married Jörg Matheus,
a graduate of Geisenheim, in 1992, and he became the cellar master
at the estate.