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Rieslaner is a crossing between the Sylvaner and Riesling grapes that is grown only to a very limited extent in the Franken and Pfalz regions of Germany. True to this, Klaus Peter Keller’s Rieslaner, grown in the Silberberg vineyard in the village of Monsheim, is probably more accurately thought of as coming from the northern Pfalz than the southern Rheinhessen. This wine is fermented in stainless-steel tanks to preserve its beautiful varietal character. The wine is rich and concentrated, with ripe peach, red currant, and lychee flavors, all supported by an acidity that is less razor-like than in most Rieslaners.
About this wine producer: Klaus-Peter Keller has inspired a renaissance of viniculture in the Hügelland, where the Benedictines of the Kloster Lorch grew some of the most prestigious wines in the Rheinland, in vineyards that were forgotten after the French Revolution. His stunning dry Rieslings have been called “the German Montrachets” by Jancis Robinson, MW, the brilliant editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine. But his noble sweet wines are no less well received. In fact, Keller has won the Gault Millau “Best of Germany” award in both categories. “If I had to name the best producer in Germany today, it would be Klaus‐Peter Keller, wrote Steven Tanzer, the world’s stingiest wine critic. “Everything he touches turns to gold.” Though lionized by the journalists as the greatest winegrower of his generation, Klaus-Peter is quick to point out that “great wine would not be possible here, if it weren’t for these great limestone soils. It’s only that someone had to remember the old tradition and just make good wine.”
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