John Gilman über 2011: Klaus-Peter Keller has made absolutely stunning wines across the board in 2011, harvesting a bit earlier than some of his colleagues to try and keep his acidities bright and zesty. It seems to me that for exquisite Pinot Noirs, dry Rieslings and noble sweet versions, there is no one estate in Germany today who can match the consistent fireworks generated by Klaus-Peter Keller. He also showed off three compelling bottlings of Scheurebe from the 2011 vintage during our visit. Keller has forty-seven year-old Scheurebe vines in the superb vineyard of Morstein, so he has some lovely, old vine fruit to work with and in 2011 he has fashioned three truly lovely examples from these vines- a very elegant and transparent Trocken version and scintillating examples of both Spätlese and Auslese as well. How are the Keller Rieslings in 2011? In short, they were probably the most consistently brilliant range of Rieslings I tasted on the trip through Germany this year, as Klaus- Peter seems to have really timed his harvesting perfectly to keep his acidities bright and zesty and give the wines cut and purity. The dry wines up and down the hierarchy from basic Trocken bottlings all the way up to the six illustrious bottlings of Grosses Gewächs and the G-Max are as magical as is now customary at this estate, and the noble sweet wines are also outstanding successes. In short, there is very little in the Keller cellars from the 2011 vintage that wine lovers are not going to want to add to their cellars, and this is a year where I would be inclined to happily buy anything from the estate that I crossed paths with in the course of my shopping for the vintage, as there is an impressive consistency of excellence across the board in this vintage.