2018 Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg Riesling Q.b.A. Georg Breuer, Rheingau

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2018 Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg Riesling Q.b.A., Georg Breuer

Bottled, like all the crus, at the end of July 2019, Breuer's 2018 Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg Riesling is very precise but intense and aromatic but also flinty on the nose, where tropical fruit aromas are currently displayed but intermixed with flinty notes. On the palate, this is a juicy, linear, pure and mineral, tightly woven and tensioned dry Riesling of great class and style. It's much less fruity here than on the nose, and the finish is vital, tight and salty but most of all mineral and almost bursting of tension. Exciting and highly promising. The 2018 is not showing a lot today, but it's promising a lot. Bottled with 11.7% alcohol and one gram of residual sugar. Tasted in August 2019. - Stephan Reinhardt, Jan. 2020

Mosel Fine Wines - 2018 Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg Riesling Q.b.A., Georg Breuer

The 2018er Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg Riesling is a bone-dry wine (with less than 1 g/l of residual sugar). This still rather closed and unyielding wine needs quite some time in the glass to reveal a superbly aromatic and refined nose of pear, yellow peach, sage, candy floss, almond, nut, and a hint of coconut. The wine is straight, herbal, and pure on the palate. There is a light touch of smoothness and ripeness on the mid-palate, yet the wine leaves a nice feel of zesty fruits and lime in the finish. This gorgeous dry Riesling is still very much work in progress (as it should be) ,and will need quite a few years to blossom. It could then easily exceed our high expectations, especially as the wine develops more flesh and aromatic nuances. 2024-2038. - Okt. 2019