2005 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese Maximin Grünhaus, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2005 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese, Maximin Grünhaus

Representing a mere 100 liters, the 2005 Maximin Grunhauser Abstberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese offers an esterous, slightly volatile nose featuring peach and lemon oil, a super-concentrated palate impression of inscrutably dense citrus and pit fruit essence, and a finish full of distilled fruits, flowers and herbs, powerful citrus, and honey. A hint of caramelization and brown sugar also becomes evident as the wine uncoils. You need hours – and perhaps decades – to take the full measure of such a wine, whereas today’s assessment must reflect its utterly embryonic and certainly less than cuddly state. I think there has been nothing comparable in concentration to this at Grunhaus since the Abtsberg B.A. and T.B.A. of 1995. - David Schildknecht, Feb. 2007