2018 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Auslese 87 Maximin Grünhaus, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2018 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Auslese 87, Maximin Grünhaus

The 2018 Maximin Grünhaus Abtsberg Riesling Auslese Nr. 87 offers an intense, excitingly aromatic and complex bouquet with lemon and stone fruit aromas intermingled with notes of flinty, crunchy slate, crushed stones and dried herbs. Sweet and lush yet piquant and vital on the palate, with kicking acidity and lingering mineral tension, this is a mouthwatering and firmly structured Auslese of great class and style. It's one of the rare Auslesen in 2018 that needs to be cellared, whereas so many already taste wonderful now. This needs to be aged to soften its racy-piquant acidity. Bottled with 7.5% alcohol, 137 grams of residual sugar and an analytically rather moderate level of 7.5 total acidity. Tasted from AP 29 19 in June 2019. - Stephan Reinhardt, Aug. 2019