2018 Nierstein PETTENTHAL Riesling Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2018 Nierstein Pettenthal Riesling "GG" is deep and flinty on the excitingly complex, precise and crunchy nose that offers lemon zest and slatey aromas. Silky and round but very intense and elegant on the palate, this is a rich and full-bodied but highly finessed and balanced Riesling with a crystalline structure and lingering salinity. Very long, intense and powerful but always fine. Great wine. Tasted at the domaine in March 2020. - Stephan Reinhardt, Mai 2020

Mosel Fine Wines: The 2018er Pettenthal GG, as it is referred to on the consumer label, is quite marked by pungent notes of wood, vanilla and coconut cream as one finds them in wines with exposure to oak during the élevage. It is only after some extensive airing that the wine reveals more complex scents of candied grapefruit, pear and honeysuckle. The wine develops more classic Riesling flavors on the tight, dense and slightly broad palate and leaves a rather pungent sensation of tartness in the long but also currently rather harsh finish. This big expression of dry Riesling will need extensive aging in order to integrate the wood-like flavors and harness its sharp tartness. It could then possibly turn out even better than anticipated. 2025-2033+

Vinous: Tangerine peel, smoky Madagascar peppercorns, orange blossom and pit-inflected white peach inform a forceful nose. Juicy tangerine and lime serve for animation on a seductively silken palate lent invigoration by zesty citrus peel and tangy apple skin. The seriously sustained finish is admirably transparent to smoky, peppery, zesty, stony and alkaline notes whose impingements set one’s tongue tingling and sizzling, but not from any heat, nor without sufficient refreshing juiciness to ward off austerity. - David Schildknecht, Nov. 2020