2019 Maximin Grünhäuser Riesling "Alte Reben" Nr. 21 Q.b.A. Maximin Grünhaus, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2019 Maximin Grünhäuser Riesling "Alte Reben" Nr. 21 Q.b.A., Maximin Grünhaus

Due to the exceptional and unique quality, Maximin von Schubert has decided to bottle the bone-dry 2019 Maximin Grünhaus Riesling Trocken Alte Reben Fuder 21 alone, without blending it with the other fuders that make up the regular Alte Reben. Tasted as a sample that was ready to be bottled, the intensely golden-yellow wine opens with a pure, fresh, floral and herbal bouquet of a perfectly ripe and elegant Riesling fruit. Silky, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, complex, powerful, very persistent and always elegant and salty-refined Riesling whose two grams of residual sugar are balanced by ripe acidity, proud richness and a full body with 12.5% alcohol. The finish is deep, tensioned and stimulatingly salty and reveals a nice phenolic grip. A classic that I couldn't taste long with the regular Alte Reben but a few weeks later. - Stephan Reinhardt, Aug. 2020

Mosel Fine Wines - 2019 Maximin Grünhäuser Riesling "Alte Reben" Nr. 21 Q.b.A., Maximin Grünhaus

The 2019er Maximin Grünhäuser Riesling Alte Reben Nr. 21, as it is written on the consumer label, is a special cask of the Alte Reben bottling which comes from fruit harvested in the Herrenberg and which fermented down to bone-dry levels of residual sugar (1 g/l). It offers a big yet still backward nose made of pear, citrusy fruits, tea leaf, ginger, aniseed herbs, smoky slate, and subtle herbal elements. The wine proves still slightly raw at first as some tart elements battle it out with the zesty structure on the palate, and tartness drives the flavor profile in the finish. But the aftertaste already reveals some beautiful, superbly subtle, and finely chiseled notes of citrusy fruits, blue-berried fruits, minty herbs, and chalky minerals. This gorgeous bone-dry tasting Riesling really needs a few years of rest in order to show its best. But the potential is huge! 2024-2034. - Juni 2020