2014 Westhofen MORSTEIN Spätburgunder Felix Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung Klaus Peter Keller, Rheinhessen

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2014 Westhofen MORSTEIN Spätburgunder Felix Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung, Klaus Peter Keller

Keller's dark, cherry colored 2014 Morstein Spätburgunder GG "Felix" offers a pure, elegant, ripe and concentrated dark cherry and berry bouquet with some coconut chocolate and meat juice aromas. Full-bodied, round and elegant on the palate, this is an intense, dense and powerful red with juicy fruit and firm but fine, spicy tannins. It is well balanced but still very young and needs time to reduce its baby fat a bit. Tasted at the VDP Grosse Lage/Gewächs tasting in Wiesbaden in August 2017. In September this wine became by far Germany's most expensive red wine of all time. It has been sold at the auction in Bad Kreuznach for around 690 euros per bottle and that's the price you'll have to pay, if you can find a bottle. - Stephan Reinhardt, Okt. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines - 2014 Westhofen MORSTEIN Spätburgunder Felix Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung, Klaus Peter Keller

Light red-purple in color, this Spätburgunder offers a most beautiful and complex nose of red berry fruits including raspberry and redcurrant as well as rose petal, spices, Morello cherry and blueberry. This is superbly elegant on the palate, where it does not try to through power but shines through multi-layered finesse and subtlety. The freshness packed into the wine is quite stunning, and leads to myriads of fruit nuances right into the magnificent and long finish. There is still a light touch of tannins in the background which only needs a couple of years to fully integrate. This should then turn into a breathtaking piece of Spätburgunder! 2020-2034. - Okt. 2017

Vinous - 2014 Westhofen MORSTEIN Spätburgunder Felix Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung, Klaus Peter Keller

Cinnamon- and cardamom-tinged purple plum and cherry project a forward, sweet sense of ripeness on the nose and on a juicy but firm palate underlain with chalk and crushed stone. Abundant though reasonably fine tannins are felt all the way through a gripping but fortunately persistently juicy finish, while medicinal suggestions of iodine and herbal extracts offer intrigue and sweaty salinity lends saliva-inducement. Still, this is more formidable than lovable and will need time. Tiny-berry concentration traceable in part to Burgundian genetics is very evident. (For an account of the unusual vines behind this wine, consult my review of the corresponding 2013. There were only around 50 cases of this 2014.) - David Schildknecht, Nov. 2017