{"product_id":"robert-weil-kiedricher-grafenberg-riesling-beerenauslese-2002-375ml","title":"Robert Weil, Kiedricher Gräfenberg Riesling Beerenauslese, 2002 (375ml)","description":"A nobly sweet Riesling from Kiedricher Gräfenberg, now past twenty years old. Beerenauslese means \"berry selection,\" and at Robert Weil that is literal: pickers make pass after pass through the vineyard, plucking out only the individual botrytis-shriveled berries, which by this stage of ripeness are halfway to raisins. The site earns that effort — a brutally steep southwest-facing slope in a sheltered Rheingau side valley, its stony phyllite shot through with water-retaining loess and loam, a combination that keeps the vines balanced and has been recognized as outstanding since the late twelfth century. The estate can claim that Gräfenberg is the only vineyard in the world to produce every quality level up through Trockenbeerenauslese in every vintage since 1989, and 2002 is inside that run. Wines like this were on the tables of Europe's nobility and the lists of grand hotels from St. Petersburg to Paris by the end of the 1800s; the price of admission to that world is rarely this reasonable. Half-bottle format, which is exactly how most people should buy dessert Riesling — serve it well chilled.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525003251769,"sku":"NYC-[CNSN]-TTSUMMER0826-092226-240-26","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Robert-Weil-Kiedricher-Grafenberg-Riesling-Beerenauslese-2002-375ml-Dessert-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1790154891","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/robert-weil-kiedricher-grafenberg-riesling-beerenauslese-2002-375ml","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}