2013 Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg Riesling Q.b.A. Georg Breuer, Rheingau

Mosel Fine Wines: The 2013er Berg Schlossberg, as it is referred to on the consumer label, is a legally dry Riesling (with 7 g/l of residual sugar) made from the Estate’s finest casks from this vineyard. It still proves pretty much work in progress and is tight, austere, and hugely primary at first. It is only after a couple of minutes that it starts to offer a remarkably engaging nose made of green herbs, mint, gooseberry, mirabelle, and aniseed herbs. The wine proves structured and hugely zesty in the palate, and leaves a long and delicately tart feel in the still slightly sharp finish. The underlying finesse of this still very backward effort is simply remarkable, and the energy that it delivers is simply mind-blowing. There is quite some upside here, once the wine will emerge from its shell. 2028-2053. - Jan. 2020