The Daily August

⏳ Drinking Window

2024 - 2027

🍷 Vintage Profile

The 2024 growing season in the Rheingau was defined by a cool, wet spring followed by a warm, humid summer that demanded vigilant vineyard management. High autumn rainfall necessitated a swift, precise harvest to maintain fruit health, resulting in grapes with vibrant, elevated natural acidity and moderate potential alcohol. In 'The Daily August', this yields an exceptionally crisp, refreshing profile with taut citrus and green apple flavors underpinned by vibrant acidity and classic slate minerality. Already showing beautifully upon release, it is best enjoyed young and fresh between 2025 and 2028.

🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings

Spicy Thai curries, grilled white fish, roasted pork loin

✨ Technical Specifications

The Daily August Riesling is sourced from estate vineyards in the Rheingau region, characterized by soils composed of loess, loam, and quartzite. The 2024 vintage in the Rheingau was marked by a damp spring followed by a warm, humid summer, requiring meticulous canopy management to ensure healthy fruit. The wine is crafted from 100% Riesling grapes, fermented and aged in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats to preserve its natural acidity, bright fruit profile, and mineral tension.

🍾 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

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