Why is this wine so great? because 85% of Keller's holdings are grossen lagen (grand cru) sites, but only 15% of the wine produced is labelled as GG (a dry wine from a grossen lagen site). Much of the wine from these grand cru sites finds its way into the Trocken and the other wines listed below. The Keller family continue to buy small plots in great sites, and to keep "small" they lease off lesser ones to other winemakers. This better overall source of grapes, combined with even more obsessive work in the vines, more foot stomping / judicious skin-contact than in previous decades is resulting in even better wines of great tension and power. Here is a great example, a wine with lime, lemon, slight peach, lemongrass and yeasty / struck rock nuances that dances with beautiful acidity and almost chewy phenolic grip in a symphony of complexity.

 2022 Keller Riesling ‘Limestone’
RRP: $79 | Offer $69

In order to make the famous Keller GGs (that sell for $550 upwards per bottle) some grapes are harvested from the best-sited mature vines, very close to the start of vintage, to allow the remaining small number of bunches on each vine to ripen un-hindered. These slightly earlier-picked bunches (from the likes of Morstein, Abtserde etc.) are higher in acidity and perfect for a very lively, juicy, nectarine-inflected slightly sweet and "mineral-laden" ageable and great white. The style of the Limestone is saline and bursting with stony, edgy, juicy fruit (with the residual sugar in the background) is now a legendary white of the Keller stable. The 2022 is just a little plusher and juicier than the firmer 2021.

2022 Keller Riesling ‘Limestone’ Kabinett
RRP: $99 | Offer $89

"Bright, intense stony citrus – lemon and lime – but also spring blossom and a hint of green apple. Marked citrus/lime purity with a delicate chalky limestone-induced texture. The stony sensation on the palate makes you think it is drier than it is. Salivating, great tension. Long and pure and stony, almost dry-tasting on the finish. Long, beautifully balanced. Amazing to get a wine like this from a warm, dry year." 17/20pts! - jancisrobinson.com

2022 Keller Weisser Burgunder & Chardonnay Trocken
RRP: $79 | Offer $69

 In English, pinot blanc and chardonnay. What the Keller family have created here is mighty. With Felix's (KP and Julia's eldest son) passion for these varieties and the old vines available, the work that has been done over recent years has resulted in a very unique style. It's like a mythical blend of Dauvissat Chablis and Corton Charlemagne with just a little dash of slight skin-contact riesling grown on limestone to add more linearity, texture and an electric nervosity. As KP says, "It's all about elegance and precision, so we used 1 large old oak barrel, a few small older pieces and a little went into tank." This is a fully dry white at just under 13% alc. with a mineral first impression, fruit following but with a real depth on the palate, a textural twist almost bordering on chewy, and a slight spiced apple and "warm dough" nuance, powerful yet restrained. Spicy pear contrasts with freshness and the oak is well buried. It has impressive length, concentration and ageability. 

 2022 Keller Westhofen Sylvaner Trocken
RRP: $133 | Offer: $117

A supercharged sylvaner from some of the best mature vines!