Peter Jakob Kühn Mittelheim St. Nikolaus Riesling Großes Gewächs 2013

95+/100 PP

"After 17 months in traditional 1,200- and 2,400-liter barrels, the white-golden colored 2013 Sankt Nikolaus Riesling trocken Grosse Lage has a beautifully intense and precise, yet very fine and spicy, deep, complex, highly attractive and aromatic bouquet -- indicating a great, great Riesling. Highly elegant and beautifully balanced on the palate, this is a powerful and enormously salty wine of great expression and length; it is concentrated and dense in its fruit expression and perfectly interwoven with the refreshing, salty, mineral flavors. There is also a remarkable finesse and elegance here, and the finish seems to be endless and reveals a great finesse, piquancy and salinity. Compared to the sibling from the Doosberg, the Sankt Nikolaus is much fresher, younger, more transparent and finesse-full; whereas the Doosberg is rich, powerful and rather monolithic at least at this stadium. Please mind that the Sankt Nikolaus was bottled six months later than the Doosberg due to the long fermentation. The wine was still at nine grams of residual sugar when the Dossberg was bottled. Both great personalities to be cellared by any Riesling freak. I have never tasted a Sankt Nikolaus with such a finesse and transparency."
(Stephan Reinhardt, robertparker.com)

MITTELHEIM SANKT NIKOLAUS – VDP.GROSSE LAGE
"Namensgeber ist eine historische Sandsteinfigur des Heiligen Nikolaus die segnend am Weinbergsrand steht. Sanft neigt sich diese Parzelle nach Süden und lässt den Blick über den nur 150 Meter entfernten Rhein schweifen. Der Rhein fungiert hier als Wärmespeicher und Sonnenreflektor. Das bewirkt im Frühling einen deutlich früheren Austrieb und damit eine besonders lange Wachstums- und Reifezeit. Über 60-jährige Reben bringen nur wenige kleinbeerige Trauben mit komplexem und intensivem Aroma hervor. Im Herzstück der Lage entsteht unser hochwertigster Riesling, das Kühn-Unikat „Schlehdorn“."
(Weingut Peter Jakob Kühn)