2006 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese 49

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Representing the single most concentrated lot of Auslese this vintage, the 2006 Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese Fuder #49 features apricot, honey, lime, and malt, in a dense, compact, subtly smoky and pungently mineral melange. But this is a bit tripped up by its sheer sweetness at least at this early stage. It boasts impressive depth and sheer length, but beneath all of its sweetness are faintly bitter and rough manifestations of botrytis. Ideally, I would revisit this in a couple of years to re-assess its potential. An obviously botrytized Abtsberg Beerenauslese lacked the requisite clarity or purity to completely convince, and I shall reserve judgement on the corresponding, embryonic Trockenbeerenauslese. - David Schildknecht, Okt. 2008

Mosel Fine Wines: This deep-yellow colored offers a ripe nose of almond cram, pineapple juice, honey, apple juice as well as fresher scents of cassis and herbs in the background. The wine is slightly firm and robust on the palate but leaves a rather airy even if direct feel driven by honeyed almond and more cassis in the long finish. Now-2026. - März 2016