2015 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese Maximin Grünhaus, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2015 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese, Maximin Grünhaus

The 2015 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese offers an open and very aromatic bouquet of herbal aromas and ripe Riesling flavors but is less focused, precise and stony on the nose than the Abtsberg. Fresh and piquant on the palate, this is a very juicy and slightly astringent Auslese that currently lacks finesse and comes along a bit drying. The aging potential should be very good, though. - Stephan Reinhardt, Apr. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines - 2015 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese, Maximin Grünhaus

This offers some grapefruit, melon, pear and minty herbs on the nose. The wine has some creamy pear at first which gives way to racy cassis and spices. The finish is elegant and to die for as mouth-watering minerals play with one’s senses. This will enter its maturity window in a good decade and will then prove a great expression of “feine Auslese.” 2025-2040. - Jun. 2016

Vinous - 2015 Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese, Maximin Grünhaus

White currant and quince jellies are tinged with cress and candied lime, both on the nose and on the lush and creamy but also bright and piquant palate of this Auslese. Evocations of peach and Persian melon add to its imposing fruitiness, and there is a persistent alliance of richness and vivacity rather than any sense of bifurcation. Salinity sets the salivary glands pumping on a penetrating finish transparent to stony nuances. - David Schildknecht, Mai 2017