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From Frank Wilden, The Australian February 23rd 2017
KELLER 2015
Best Vintage On Record! First Hipping Tba since 1900!!!
The Keller 2015’s are very special. A vintage like this doesn’t come along very often. Klaus-Peter Keller’s father, Klaus, believes it to be better than the legendary 1971 and the also best he has ever seen. Hipping 2015 Trockenbeerenauslese (Tba) was achievable for the first time in 115 years!
The grapes for the dry wines were harvested clean and perfectly ripe whilst the grapes for sweet wines picked late, with botrytis and without. The sweet wines without botrytis (Kabinett, Spatlese and Auslese) were made from grapes dried perfectly by the sun and wind. “The advantage of healthy dried grapes is increasing acidity, almost proportional to the volume loss, giving the grape juice crystal clear aromas and a fantastic high acidity. I cannot remember ever having late harvest musts weights with this brilliance in the cellar – they were picked with an acidity of 11-13 mg/ml!” – K.P Keller
But it is also almost unprecedented that so many bunches were so perfectly botrytised that instead of picking berry-by-berry with scissors as is normal, many bunches were simply picked whole! “With the class of 2015 in the cellar we have been richly rewarded. The clarity and precision of the fruit combined with radiant acidity is simply overwhelming! Riesling is perfect and for example we made our first Hipping Tba. The last time Hipping gave grapes for Tba was 1900! The Rieslaner wines are erotic-exotic elixirs tasting extraordinary good already. The Trockenbeerenauslese from very old vines in Silberberg is a powerful, racy package with charming fruitiness and complexity. Yes, 2015 is really a sweet wine Valhalla with an incredible amount of sweet wines; more than 25 different wines! Batches of Tba range from 27 – 500Lt” – K.P Keller
Keller GGs 100 Points Decanter magazine 2017 article
2015 WINES KELLER WINES
KELLER GRUNER SILVANER TROCKEN 2015
KELLER RIESLING TROCKEN 2015
KELLER RIESLING TROCKEN ‘VON DER FELS’ 2015
KELLER RIESLING LIMESTONE 2015 (OFF DRY – 10g) 10%
KELLER RIESLING KABINETT LIMESTONE 2015 9.5%
KELLER RIESLING AUSLESE KIRCHSPEIL 2015
KELLER RIESLING AUSLESE MORSTEIN AVAILABLE2015 375ml
KELLER RIESLING AUSLESE *** HUBACKER 2015 375ml
KELLER CUVEE Tba 375ml
KELLER RIESLANER BEERENAUSLESE SILBERBERG 375ml
KELLER RIESLANER Tba SILBERBERG 375ml
KELLER RIESLING BEERENAUSLESE PETTENTHAL 375ml
KELLER RIESLING Tba MORSTEIN 375ml
KELLER RIESLING Tba HIPPING 375ml
For more information CLICK HERE
LIST OF CURRENT WINES AVAILABLE
AUSTRALIAN WINES
| KOERNER (Only available to VIC) |
| KOERNER CABERNET SAUVIGNON MALBEC 2015 |
| KOERNER SHIRAZ MOURVEDRE 2015 |
| KOERNER SANGIOVESE GRENACHE 2015 |
| KOERNER TEMPRANILLO NOUVEAU 2015 |
| HEART WINES |
| HEART WINES COWARAMUP CHARDONNAY 2015 |
| One big barrel. No added acid. No enzymes or yeast. Handpicked. Mature vines. Lots of lees stirring. It’s a wild, funky, matchsticky thing. Pear and lime, nuts, maybe some lemon butter, slight cinnamon spice. It’s medium bodied, quite tangy with a pleasant cider-like edge, but also soft, nutty and milky with it. Has an appealing chalkiness in the aftertaste, and plenty of length. Beautiful style of Chardonnay. 94+Pts Gary Walsh – winefront.com.au |
| HEART WINES PINOT GRIS +3 2015 |
| Complexity and effortless drinkability in one go. Perfumed, aromatic, spicy, with juicy white pear, lychees, lime and almonds. Feels light, but has fleshy texture, juicy citrus acidity and a tangy and gently chalky quinine laced finish of good length. Ginger too, I might add. Really good. 92Pts Gary Walsh – winefront.com.au |
| HEART WINES VICTOR-CHARDONNAY 2015 – JUST ARRIVED |
| Richer style with almond and fig, some struck match and funk, stone fruit and citrus. It’s medium bodied, falls to savoury and complex, rather than simply fruity, with a smooth flow of flavour, gently viscous texture, and slightly edgy finish… A complex and good glass of Chardonnay. 91Pts Gary Walsh – winefront.com.au |
| MEDHURST (Only available to NSW & ACT) |
| MEDHURST CABERNET 2012 |
| MEDHURST CHARDONNAY 2013 |
| MEDHURST CHARDONNAY 2014 |
| MEDHURST ‘YARRA VALLEY’ CHARDONNAY 2015 |
| MEDHURST SAUVIGNON BLANC 2014 |
| MEDHURST SHIRAZ 2012 |
| MEDHURST RESERVE CHARDONNAY 2012 |
| MEDHURST RESERVE PINOT NOIR 2012 |
| MEDHURST RESERVE SHIRAZ 2012 |
| MEDHURST RESERVE CABERNET 2012 **93Pts |
| MEDHURST ROSÉ 2016 – JUST ARRIVED |
| MOUNT TRIO VINEYARD (Only available in VIC) |
| MOUNT TRIO GREAT SOUTHERN CABERNET MERLOT 2014 |
| MOUNT TRIO GREAT SOUTHERN CHARDONNAY 2015 |
| MOUNT TRIO HOME BLOCK PINOT NOIR 2014 |
| MOUNT TRIO MT. BARKER PINOT NOIR 2014 |
| MOUNT TRIO WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PINOT NOIR 2014 |
| MOUNT TRIO PORONGURUP RIESLING 2015 |
| MOUNT TRIO PORONGURUP SHIRAZ 2015 |
| NAKED RUN WINES (Not available in SA) |
| NAKED RUN ‘BWC’ SHIRAZ 2012 **92Pts |
| NAKED RUN ‘HILL 5’ SHIRAZ CABERNET 2013 **91Pts |
| NAKED RUN ‘SWEET KISS’ RIESLING 2013 |
| NAKED RUN GREENOCK SHIRAZ 2010 |
| NAKED RUN SEVENHILL RIESLING 2010 |
| NAKED RUN ‘THE ALDO’ GRENACHE SHIRAZ 2014 |
| NAKED RUN ‘THE FIRST’ RIESLING 2011 |
| NAKED RUN ‘THE FIRST’ RIESLING 2012 |
| NAKED RUN ‘THE FIRST’ RIESLING 2013 |
| NAKED RUN ‘THE FIRST’ RIESLING 2015 ~97 Pts |
| OAKDENE (Available to NSW, ACT & QLD ONLY) |
| OAKDENE BLUE LABEL CHARDONNAY 2014 |
| OAKDENE BLUE LABEL NV SPARKLING BRUT |
| OAKDENE BLUE LABEL PINOT NOIR 2014 |
| OAKDENE BLUE LABEL SHIRAZ 2014 |
| OAKDENE WHITE LABEL BERNARDS CABERNETS 2014 |
| OAKDENE WHITE LABEL JESSICA SAUVIGNON 2013 |
| OAKDENE WHITE LABEL LIZ’S CHARDONNAY 2013 |
| OAKDENE WHITE LABEL ‘LY LY’ PINOT GRIS 2015 |
| OAKDENE ‘MATILDA’ SPARKLING BLANC DE NOIR 2012 |
| OAKDENE WHITE LABEL PETA’S PINOT NOIR 2013 ***91+Pts OAKDENE WHITE LABEL WILLIAM SHIRAZ 2014 GOLD MEDAL NATIONAL WINE SHOW 2015 GOLD MEDAL ROYAL MELBOURNE WINE SHOW 2015 GOLD MEDAL VICTORIAN WINES SHOW 2015 GOLD MEDAL BALLARAT WINE SHOW 2015 |
FRENCH WINE
| BEAUJOLAIS |
| THIVIN COTE DE BROUILLY CLOS BERTRAND 2013 |
| THIVIN COTE DE BROUILLY CLOS BERTRAND 2014 |
| Far out, this producer is good. So fragrant; uplifting sweet cherry, pretty, musky spice, garrigue, warm terracotta, maraschino. Mixed up, it smells great. In the palate, lithe and light, crunchy-textured, pure-feeling and gently sweet but curled up in feathery tannins and a lick of amaro-herbal things. Finishes fresh and utterly mouthwatering. More, more. Thanks. Beautiful, graceful thing you are. 93Pts Mike Bennie, winefront.com.au |
| THIVIN COTE DE BROUILLY SEPT VIGNES 2014 – (MORE STOCK ARRIVING AUGUST) |
| Fresh, fragrant, pretty wine, and oh so good and easy to drink. It reeks of red cherries, sweet spice, garrigue and herbs. It’s bright and light in the palate with crisp textured fruitiness and jubey red fruit character. Though sweet-feeling, it’s actually more sweet-sour and finishes with dry, chalky pucker. There’s more structure than you’d think in the wine too – fine boned tannin, flirty acidity, the play of fruit, spice and whole bunch herbal character. Lovely stuff. 93Pts Mike Bennie – winefront.com.au |
| THIVIN COTE DE BROUILLY LA CHAPELLE 2014 |
| “From up high on Mont Brouilly. Geez this is a good, consistent, interesting Beaujolais producer…(La Chapelle) Electric garnet coloured in glass. Rose hip tea, red cherry, cloves, pepper, game meat. Collision of awesome stuff in the bouquet. Slip then grip in the palate; dig this texture. It’s cherry and cranberry and amaro in the palate, or so I say, but whatever way you run at it it finishes mouthwatering and refreshing for a red. I really get moved by this wine. It is complex, fresh, fine, light weight, great.” 94Pts Mike Bennie – winefront.com.au |
| THIVIN COTE DE BROUILLY LES GRIOTTES DE BRULHIE 2013 **92+Pts |
| THIVIN MANOIR DU PAVE BEAUJOLAIS VILLAGES 2015 – NEW VINTAGE |
| Spicy and packed full of rich raspberry, gentle earthiness in tow, with some perfume. Medium bodied, fleshy and ripe, with plenty of flavour and tannin (for this style of wine, in context), a violety mouth-perfume and a crunch of acidity to clean up. Length is OK, but the drinking satisfaction is high. Tempted to rate it a bit higher! 90Pts Gary Walsh, winefront.com.au |
| BURGUNDY |
| BIZE SAVIGNY 1ER CRU AUX VERGELESSES 2012 1500ml |
| BIZE SAVIGNY 1ER CRU AUX VERGELESSES 2012 – LIMITED STOCK |
| BIZE SAVIGNY 1ER CRU LES MARCONNETS 2003 – LIMITED STOCK |
| DOMAINE DE L’ASTE (DAVID MOREAU) POMMARD 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| DOMAINE DE L’ASTE (DAVID MOREAU) SANTENAY 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| DOMAINE DE L’ASTE (DAVID MOREAU) SANTENAY 1er CRU BEAUREGARD 2013 |
| DOMAINE DE L’ASTE (DAVID MOREAU) SANTENAY 1er CRU BEAUREPAIRE 2013 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD BOURGOGNE BLANC 2013 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD BOURGOGNE BLANC 2014 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD BOURGOGNE ROUGE 2014 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD POMMARD 1ER CRU LES RUGIENS 2013 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD POMMARD 1ER CRU LES RUGIENS 2014 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD VOLNAY 1ER CRU CLOS DES CHENES 2013 |
| FONTAINE GAGNARD VOLNAY 1ER CRU CLOS DES CHENES 2014 |
| GRIVOT BOURGOGNE CHARDONNAY 2012 |
| GRIVOT CLOS DE VOUGEOT 2012 375ml |
| GRIVOT NSG 1ER PRULIERS 2012 |
| GRIVOT NSG 1ER BOUDOTS 2011 |
| CHEVILLON NSG VV 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| In the strength of this vintage, I’m going to make a small purchase (in quantity, less so in dollars) of some of the 1ers from this producer. I confess, I do buy red Burgundy sometimes. It’s a sometimes wine. There’s a lot of juicy energy and joy in the glass here. Bursting with all the red fruits, a dusting of spice and vanilla oak, gentle earthiness and smoky autumn leaves. Clean, fresh, gummy tannin and a leaping attack, then a crisp mineral laced finish of excellent length with the pretty red fruits showing in the finale. If only it were less expensive. Lovely drinking. 93+Pts Gary Walsh, winefront.com.au |
| CHEVILLON NSG BOUSSELOTS 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| CHEVILLON NSG RONCIERES 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| CHEVILLON NSG PERRIERES 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| CHEVILLON NSG PRULIERS 2013 – LIMITED STOCK |
| CHABLIS |
| MOREAU CHABLIS 1ER CRU VAILLONS 2011 375ml (SCREWCAP) |
| MOREAU CHABLIS 1ER CRU VAILLONS 2013 (SCREWCAP) – SPECIAL PRICE |
| MOREAU CHABLIS 1ER CRU VAILLONS 2014 (SCREWCAP) |
| Such a great thing to drink, good Chablis: my favourite. This is cool and scented with mint and fennel, stony with dilute citrus and green apple flavours, crunch and freshness on a crunchy cucumber finish of fine length. Delicious. Suspect I’ll be buying a bit of this. 93Pts Gary Walsh, winefront.com.au |
| MOREAU CHABLIS DOMAINE DE BIEVILLE CHABLIS 2014 (SCREWCAP) |
| MOREAU CHABLIS GRAND CRU BLANCHOT 2010 – LIMITED STOCK |
| MOREAU CHABLIS GRAND CRU LES CLOS 2011 (SCREWCAP) |
| DOMAINE GILBERT PICQ 2014 – CHABLIS CLASSICS |
| PICQ CHABLIS “Vosgros” |
| PICQ CHABLIS “Dessus la Carriere” – ARRIVING IN AUGUST |
| “2014 is possibly Picq’s best ever vintage, at least that I have tasted after more than a decade of history buying from the estate. The acidity is high, and the ph is low and life-giving (3.15 for the oenologically minded), and the alcohol a perfect 12.5%. There is power combined with a sense of weightlessness, purity and length along with some nice extended-lees aging doughy and/or mineral/reduction, oyster shell characteristics.” Randall Pollard |
| CHAMPAGNE |
| BARRAT-MASSON GRAIN D’ARGILE EXTRA BRUT |
| BARRAT-MASSON FLEUR DE CRAIE NV |
| JURA |
| DOMAINE JEAN BOURDY COTES DU JURA BLANC 2010 |
| DOMAINE JEAN BOURDY CREMANT DE JURA CEPAGE (ROSÉ TROUSSEAU) |
| DOMAINE JEAN BOURDY CREMANT DU JURA NV SPARKLING |
| DOMAINE JEAN BOURDY CHATEAU CHALON 2005 620ml |
| DOMAINE JEAN BOURDY CHATEAU CHALON 2006 620ml |
| DOMAIN JEAN MACLE MACVIN DU JURA |
| PUFFENEY CHARDONNAY 2014 |
| TISSOT PATCHWORK CHARDONNAY 2014 |
| TISSOT SELECTION 2011 |
| LANGUEDOC |
| CARAGUILHES CORBIERES BLANC 2015 |
| CARAGUILHES CORBIERES ROUGE 2013 |
| DOMAINE DE LA BASTIDE SYRAH VV 2013 |
| CROIX DE BEZARD PICPOUL DE PINET 2014 |
| MAJONE PICPOUL 2015 |
| PARADOU GRENACHE (MINERVOIS) 2013 **90Pts |
| DOMAINE PIERRE DE PRUNET BLANC 2014 |
| DOMAINE PIERRE DE PRUNET ROSÉ 2015 |
| DOMAINE PIERRE DE PRUNET ROUGE 2014 |
| LOIRE VALLEY |
| CLERAY MUSCADET CARDINAL RICHARD 2012 |
| CROCHET SANCERRE BLANC 2014 **92Pts |
| MARECHAL METHODE TRADITIONAL NV |
| PROVENCE |
| MIRADOU ROSÉ 2014 |
| ROUBINE ‘R’ PROVENCE ROSÉ 2013 1500ml |
| ROUBINE ‘R’ PROVENCE ROSÉ 2015 |
| ROQUEFORT CORAIL ROSÉ 2015 |
| RHONE VALLEY |
| DUMARCHER ZIN ZIN 2014 |
| DUMARCHER VIN ROUGE 2014 |
| PESQUIE TERRASSES VENTOUX ROUGE 2014 |
| SEGRIES COTES DU RHONE ROUGE 2014 |
| SEGRIES LIRAC ROUGE 2013 |
| SEGRIES TAVEL ROSÉ 2015 – NEW VINTAGE |
GERMAN WINES
| RHEINHESSEN |
| KELLER FRAUENBERG GG PINOT NOIR 2013 |
| KELLER RIESLING KABINETT LIMESTONE 2015 (9.5%) |
| Perfume is on point, flavours are lean, brisk, crisp, refreshing, acid and sugar dance, the wine is insanely drinkable. It has pedigree of fine riesling but the smashability of vin de soif. It’s lime, florals, honeycomb, slate in perfume, tang, slate and sweet-sour on a seesaw to taste. Epee-sword thrust across the palate, finishes mouthwatering. So. Good. To. Drink. Riesling lovers line up. 94Pts Gary Walsh, winefront.com.au |
| KELLER RIESLING TROCKEN 2014 **93Pts |
| KELLER RIESLING TROCKEN 2015 |
| KELLER RIESLING TROCKEN VON DER FELS 2014 **94Pts |
| KELLER RIESLING LIMESTONE 2015 |
| Lime, lavender, sweet green apple, rivers of juicy sweet citrus flowing over limestone and flint. Intense, but balanced, with a long sweet/dry/crunchy finish. Has this kind of bitters in lemon squash thing going on too. Crikey, it’s delicious. So refreshing. Perhaps I *should* drink more Riesling. 94Pts Mike Bennie, winefront.com.au |
| KELLER SILVANER TROCKEN 2015 |
| WAGNER STEMPEL FURFELDER RIESLING VOM MELAPHYR 2014 |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HEERKRETZ 2013 *93Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HEERKRETZ 2013 1500ml *93Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HEERKRETZ 2014 *95Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HEERKRETZ 2014 1500ml *95Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HOLLBERG 2013 *94Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HOLLBERG 2013 1500ml *94Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HOLLBERG 2014 *95Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING GG HOLLBERG 2014 1500ml *95Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL RIESLING TROCKEN 2014 *91Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL SIEFERSHEIMER RIESLING VOM PORPHYR 2014 *93Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL SIEFERSHEIMER RIESLING VOM PORPHYR 2014 1500ml *93Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL SILVANER TROCKEN 2012 |
| WAGNER STEMPEL SILVANER TROCKEN 2014 *90Pts |
| WAGNER STEMPEL WEISSBURGUNDER TROCKEN 2014 |
ITALIAN WINES
| AZELIA |
| AZELIA BAROLO 2009 |
| AZELIA BAROLO BRICCO FIASCO 1998 1500ml |
| AZELIA BAROLO MARGHERIA 2009 Cellar Aged Stock |
| AZELIA BAROLO MARGHERIA 2008 Cellar Aged Stock 1500ml |
| AZELIA DOLCETTO D ALBA BRICCO DELL ORIOLO 2013 *90Pts |
| BROVIA |
| BROVIA BAROLO 2011 |
| BROVIA BAROLO CA MIA 2009 **95Pts |
| BROVIA BAROLO CA MIA 2011 |
| BROVIA BAROLO GARBLET SUE 2009 |
| BROVIA BAROLO GARBLET SUE 2011 |
| BROVIA BAROLO ROCCHE 2009 |
| BROVIA BAROLO ROCCHE 2011 |
| BROVIA BAROLO VILLERO 2009 |
| BROVIA BAROLO VILLERO 2011 |
| CANTINA DEL PINO |
| CANTINA DEL PINO LANGHE NEBBIOLO 2014 (BABY BARBARESCO) |
| CANTINA DEL PINO BARBARESCO 2011 |
| ISOLA AUGUSTA |
| ISOLA AUGUSTA FRIULANO 2013 & 2014 |
| ISOLA AUGUSTA PINOT GRIGIO 2014 |
| ISOLA AUGUSTA PINOT NERO 2013 – SPECIAL PRICE |
| ISOLA AUGUSTA PROSECCO MILLESIMATO BRUT 2014 **90Pts |
| MALVIRA |
| MALVIRA LANGHE NEBBIOLO 2012 |
| MALVIRA RIVE GAUCHE ARNEIS BRUT |
| MALVIRA ROERO ARNEIS 2014 Non So2 |
| MALVIRA ROERO ARNEIS RENESIO 2011 **89Pts |
| MALVIRA ROERO ARNEIS SAGLIETTO 2011 |
| STELLA DI CAMPALTO |
| STELLA DI CAMPALTO BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO 2008 – VERY LIMITED STOCK |
| STELLA DI CAMPALTO BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO 2009 RESERVA – LIMITED STOCK |
| VICENTINI |
| VICENTINI SOAVE DOC TERRE LUNGHE 2014 |
| VICENTINI VALPOLICELLA DOC BOCCASCALUCCE 2014 |
* Mike Bennie – winefront.com.au
** Gary Walsh – winefront.com.au
*** Campbell Mattinson – winefront.com.au
~ James Halliday Wine Companion
