Kai Schätzel Riesling Niersteiner Spätlese 2016
Dessert
Rheinhessen, Germany
7.4
WineSaint
Lime blossom and ripe apricot lead to a palate of remarkable precision and energy. Shows that classic Niersteiner slate backbone beneath layers of orchard fruit, with a finish that's both generous and taut. The concentration here is striking without any sense of weight.
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Kai Schätzel
→Kai Schätzel is a Rheinhessen estate working top Nierstein sites, including the Hipping and Pettenthal Grosse Lagen, with a focus on Riesling across the full ripeness spectrum from precise Kabinett to concentrated Auslese.