KELLER RIESLING "RR" 2022

Keller’s “RR” is one of those insider’s bottles. Normally, the wine is sourced from a rare red-soil parcel within the Kirchspiel. This cask rarely ferments totally dry and the Kellers have always enjoyed the natural balance of the wine. It’s what we’d call a “feinherb” – the wine is just a bit off-dry. Normally, you’ll see the bottle labeled as “Kirchspiel RR,” the “RR” denoting “Riesling” from the “Red” soil. With vintage 2022, however, Klaus Peter Keller said that a cask from a top parcel of Abtserde and one from a top parcel of Morstein, normally destined for the GGs, simply did not ferment totally dry. I think the temptation for the Kellers was too much; they had to combine these parcels, these casks. And so the 2022 comes to us as a rarefied triumvirate – Kirchspiel, as per normal, supercharged with Abtserde and Morstein.  The wine is labeled only as “RR” – KP was the one to joke this year the “RR” stands for “Rolls Royce.” Have no doubt, this is a serious feinherb, just barely off-dry with somewhere around 12 grams of residual sugar and an electric acidity that clocks in at over eight grams per liter. This is one for the history books.