A mouth-watering riesling at a modest price

Who’d have thought that the Co-op would be the destination for this thrilling elixir, asks Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2014 Goldtrpfchen, Riesling Kabinett, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, Mosel, Germany (£9.99, Co-operative stores nationwide, 0800-0686 727).

I was on a day trip to Trier, in southwestern Germany, a few months ago, with my teenage daughters, for what ostensibly sounded like a bit of a boring excursion. Trier has an unusually impressive collection of "green men" on the outside of buildings and also in the incredibly beautiful cathedral.

My mother is somewhat of an expert on the subject (she is a guide at Canterbury cathedral, so is a veritable font of information) and so we set about scouring the city centre on a weird kind of architectural treasure hunt.

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Have a look at my Instagram feed, back in February, for a montage of theresults! Anyway, von Kesselstatt owns Weinstube Kesselstatt, a superb brasserie next to the cathedral in Trier, and we retired there to escape the rain at lunchtime and never left.

This phenomenal winery makes some of the most exquisite and mouth-watering of all Mosel rieslings and we tasted the range. I then set out on another mission, on my return to the UK to find you one of their wines.

Who'd have thought that the Co-op would be the destination for this thrilling elixir? It's half the price you can get anywhere else and, at only 8.5% alcohol, I would advise loading up for summer lunch parties because this beauty is sure to move fast when the word gets out.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (MatthewJukes.com).

Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.

 

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