Robert Weil

[Robert Weil] is now the superstar estate of the Rheingau.  STEPHEN BROOKE, The Wines of Germany

The famous blue label of the estate has become the symbol of the highest quality of German wines. Only a few wine estates can boast such a continual and high level of overall quality. MICHEL BETTANE AND  THIERRY DESSEAUVE, Great Wines of the World

Wilhelm Weil generally bottles some of the finest wines that the Rheingau produces in any given vintage--and he now has a new cellar that should help him preserve his position at the pinnacle of the pecking order. If Wilhelm Weil does not make good wines in a given vintage, it was probably impossible to do so in the Rheingau. JOEL B PAYNE, Vinous Media

Weil is widely seen as the jewel of Rheingau. JANCIS ROBINSON MW

I was not surprised given the significant share of vintage 2017 German Rieslings that evince some similarities to Chablis, to discover that a slight resemblance routinely present in dry wines from Kiedrich’s top sites was accentuated in this vintage. It’s striking how (with the exception of a somewhat severe dry wine) the bottlings from Weil’s monopole Turmberg – notwithstanding its VDP classification as an Erste- as opposed to a Grosse-Lage – outshone his 2017s from the flagship Gräfenberg. Conceivably, this might – like the outstanding showing of Weil’s dry 2017 from the Klosterberg – be attributable to advantages of higher altitude in a vintage with stressful mid-summer heat and drought. It could also be that the Gräfenberg bottlings – which, heaven knows, are already very impressive in their own right – need more time to signal their full potential. Less surprising is that with the exception of the aforementioned Klosterberg, Weil’s vintage 2017 bottlings are noticeably more complex and delicious in the realm of prominent residual sugar than in that of legal Trockenheit. DAVID SCHILDKNECHT, AUGUST 2019