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Immich-Batterieberg Riesling Extra Brut Jour Fixe 2020 750ml

size
750ml
country
Germany
JS
95
WA
92
Additional vintages
2020 2016
JS
95
Rated 95 by James Suckling
Complex nose of caramelized pear, candied orange and flint. Generous and creamy with a tantalizing mousse and mineral acidity on the texturally complex medium- to full-bodied palate. For a bone-dry sparkling riesling this has amazing harmony at the very long spicy finish. A cuvee of one-third each from the Ellergrub and Zollturm sites of Enkirch on the Mosel and another third from the Altenberg site of Oberemmel on the Saar. All from 60-year-old vines. No sulfites added. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. ... More details
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Immich-Batterieberg Riesling Extra Brut Jour Fixe 2020 750ml

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Professional Ratings
JS
95
WA
92
JS
95
Rated 95 by James Suckling
Complex nose of caramelized pear, candied orange and flint. Generous and creamy with a tantalizing mousse and mineral acidity on the texturally complex medium- to full-bodied palate. For a bone-dry sparkling riesling this has amazing harmony at the very long spicy finish. A cuvee of one-third each from the Ellergrub and Zollturm sites of Enkirch on the Mosel and another third from the Altenberg site of Oberemmel on the Saar. All from 60-year-old vines. No sulfites added. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
WA
92
Rated 92 by Wine Advocate
Even eight months after the disgorgement, Immich's lemon-colored 2020 Riesling Brut Nature Jour Fixe is not just pure and intense in its mineral-iodine expression and lychee-scented fruit aromas but also still somewhat untamed. Lush and intense on the palate, this is a charmingly round and fruit-intense Mosel Riesling Sekt that doesn't have the purity and finesse of the finest sparkling wines, but it does have texture, fruit and substance. The finish is long, mouthfilling and very pleasant. It's a lovely sparkling wine in its very unique, rather vinous character. It will probably improve further with bottle age. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in November 2023.
Winery
The Riesling Sekt Brut Nature “Jour Fixe” is made from equal parts of fruit harvested in the upper part of the Enkircher Ellergrub, the west-facing part of the Trabener Zollturm and bought-in grapes from old vines in the Oberemmeler Altenberg. The wine is methode champenoise, aged nine months in barrels, and disgorged without any dosage or SO2 (the disgorgement date is not provided on the label). Gernot allows the base wine ample contact with oxygen to reduce the primary fruit and enhance the texture. The finished Sekt is nicely intense with mouthcoating mousse on the palate, yet there is a really fine delicately racy acidity lifting up the aromatics and giving this overall richer styled Sekt much vibrancy and focus right into the beautiful finish. Notably Chenin-like in many ways!
Product Details
size
750ml
country
Germany
Additional vintages
2020 2016
Overview
Complex nose of caramelized pear, candied orange and flint. Generous and creamy with a tantalizing mousse and mineral acidity on the texturally complex medium- to full-bodied palate. For a bone-dry sparkling riesling this has amazing harmony at the very long spicy finish. A cuvee of one-third each from the Ellergrub and Zollturm sites of Enkirch on the Mosel and another third from the Altenberg site of Oberemmel on the Saar. All from 60-year-old vines. No sulfites added. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
green grapes

Varietal: Riesling

Riesling grapes are very rarely blended with others in the development of wines, and for good reason. These pale grapes which originated in the cool Rhine Valley of Germany are notable for their 'transparency' of flavor, which allows the characteristics of their terroir to shine through in wonderful ways. The result of this is a wine which carries a wide range of interesting flavors quite unlike those found in other white wines, finished off with the distinctively floral perfume Riesling supplies so well. Many wineries in Germany and elsewhere tend to harvest their Riesling grapes very late – often as late as January – in order to make the most of their natural sweetness. Other methods, such as encouraging the noble rot fungus, help the Riesling grape varietal present some truly unique and exciting flavors in the glass, and the variety of wines this varietal can produce mean it is one of the finest and most interesting available anywhere.
fields

Country: Germany

Much has changed over the past few decades in regards to German wine. Long gone are the days of mass produced, sickly sweet white wines which were once the chief exports of this fascinating and ancient wine producing country, and they have been replaced with something far more sophisticated. Whilst Germany continues to produce a relatively large amount of dessert wine, the wineries of the south of the country have reverted their attention to the production of drier, more elegant wines which really make the most of the fine grape varieties which flourish there. Many of the wineries dealing primarily with the excellent Riesling grapes have produced some truly exceptional dry and semi-sweet wines over the past few years, and it seems the world has finally woken up and noticed the extremely high quality of the distinctive produce coming out of Germany today.
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green grapes

Varietal: Riesling

Riesling grapes are very rarely blended with others in the development of wines, and for good reason. These pale grapes which originated in the cool Rhine Valley of Germany are notable for their 'transparency' of flavor, which allows the characteristics of their terroir to shine through in wonderful ways. The result of this is a wine which carries a wide range of interesting flavors quite unlike those found in other white wines, finished off with the distinctively floral perfume Riesling supplies so well. Many wineries in Germany and elsewhere tend to harvest their Riesling grapes very late – often as late as January – in order to make the most of their natural sweetness. Other methods, such as encouraging the noble rot fungus, help the Riesling grape varietal present some truly unique and exciting flavors in the glass, and the variety of wines this varietal can produce mean it is one of the finest and most interesting available anywhere.
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Country: Germany

Much has changed over the past few decades in regards to German wine. Long gone are the days of mass produced, sickly sweet white wines which were once the chief exports of this fascinating and ancient wine producing country, and they have been replaced with something far more sophisticated. Whilst Germany continues to produce a relatively large amount of dessert wine, the wineries of the south of the country have reverted their attention to the production of drier, more elegant wines which really make the most of the fine grape varieties which flourish there. Many of the wineries dealing primarily with the excellent Riesling grapes have produced some truly exceptional dry and semi-sweet wines over the past few years, and it seems the world has finally woken up and noticed the extremely high quality of the distinctive produce coming out of Germany today.