The "Collection of the Year" for Gunter Künstler is primarily for his remarkable Riesling collection and our delight that the wines are back at the very top of the Rheingau wine community after a phase in which they sometimes seemed a little too smooth. As the "Grosse Gewächse“ wines in the Rheingau have only recently been released a year late, we mainly tasted the excellent 21s here. But there is already a foretaste of 2022: the magnificent 22 Marcobrunn bucked the trend, surpassing all 21s and making it into the top ten dry Rieslings of the vintage in Germany. And this is not a single positive slip-up, because even the still fairly inexpensive 22s "Erste Lagen" are of unusual class for the vintage.
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