The Daily August Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2027
🍷 Vintage Profile
The 2024 growing season in the Rheingau demanded rigorous vineyard management due to persistent spring rain and elevated disease pressure during flowering, though a stabilizing late summer enabled optimal phenolic development. Precise canopy management and selective hand-harvesting yielded berries with moderate potential alcohol and vivid, crystalline acidity characteristic of classic cool-climate vintages. Across the market, 2024 is noted for its freshness, lower extraction, and energetic mineral profiles rather than overt weight. Ready to drink upon release, this bottling shows peak varietal tension and bright citrus fruit between 2025 and 2028.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon-herb butter, Thai green curry with vegetables, Fresh goat cheese crostini
✨ Technical Specifications
August Kesseler’s 'The Daily August' Riesling is crafted to showcase the vibrant character of Rheingau Riesling in an approachable, highly expressive style. Sourced from estate vineyards along the Rhine River where steep slopes of slate, quartzite, and loess predominate, the grapes benefit from the river's thermal moderation and the protective Taunus hills. The 2024 growing season provided a classic cool-climate framework, preserving high naturally occurring acidity while achieving optimal phenolic ripeness. Fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks to protect its intense primary fruit and mineral core, this wine offers a pure reflection of the region's diverse soils.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1924, Weingut August Kesseler was transformed into one of the Rheingau's most celebrated benchmarks after August Kesseler took over the modest 2.5-hectare family estate in 1977 at just nineteen years old. Situated in the picturesque enclave of Assmannshausen within the UNESCO-designated Upper Middle Rhine Valley, the estate now cultivates approximately 33 to 40 hectares. The terroir is celebrated for its dramatic, precipitous terraces where heat-retentive slate and Taunus quartzite soils converge under a tempered river microclimate. Long famed for sparking Germany's modern Spätburgunder renaissance, Kesseler crafts equally profound, terroir-driven Rieslings. Winemaking is executed in historic double-tiered rock cellars dating to 1792, where ambient coolness permits precise, low-intervention fermentations that prize tension, depth, and mineral poise over excess weight. In addition to iconic VDP.Grosse Lage bottlings from the Assmannshäuser Höllenberg and Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg, the estate's accessible 'The Daily August' series introduces its hallmark crystalline purity and vibrant acidity to global palates.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling
🍷 ABV
11.5%