Marc Kreydenweiss - Wiebbelsberg Grand Cru Riesling 2021

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 Wiebelsberg Grand Cru is deep, pure and elegant on the fascinating intense and layered nose that is full of minerals and herbal or floral aromas such as woodruff but characterized by its ripe and concentrated yellow fruit. Full-bodied and rich on the palate, this is an elegant, dense and generous, very intense, well-concentrated and even powerful, tightly structured Riesling with a long and complex, finely tannic finish full of minerals and salts. It's still very young. Bottled in December 2023 with 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Andlau in November 2024.

I had not tasted Antoine Kreydenweiss's wines for some time, so I was curious to see how they had all developed. At one point, I was a little concerned that the established domaine would fall prey to the natural wine movement, but what I was able to taste at the domaine in Andlau in November shone with clarity, brightness, finesse, inner calm and elegance. It is a fantastic series of wines with highlights from the local grands crus Kastelberg and Wiebelsberg as well as clos Rebberg. The wines mature on the lees for almost two years without losing any of their precision, finesse and freshness. For different reasons, 2020 and 2021 were not easy vintages. This is not noticeable in the singing wines, though. A real rediscovery!