2022 EMT Riesling Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung Wagner-Stempel, Rheinhessen (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2022 EMT Riesling Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung, Wagner-Stempel

The awesome 2022 Riesling EMT (VDP.Versteigerung 2023) is from the Ur-plot of Wagner's Heerkretz. It starts off intense and pure but still pretty reductive and untamed on the nose, which indicates fully ripe and carefully selected fruit intermingled with saline notes. Lush and generous yet also remarkably refined and lively on the palate, this is a full-bodied, pure and mineral, enormously saline and "rocky" Heerkretz deluxe that is richer and drier than the GG and a mouthfilling, hedonistic Riesling from a great terroir. The finish is spectacularly long and saline but, for those who bought it at auction, the 2022 should be cellared for at least another 7 years or so. However, as splendid as the EMT is or as promising the GG, I have always wondered if the combination of the two would be the most complete or most authentic wine. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in January 2024. The elevated price is the result of last year's auction in Bad Kreuznach. - Stephan Reinhardt, Jan. 2024

Mosel Fine Wines - 2022 EMT Riesling Q.b.A. trocken Versteigerung, Wagner-Stempel

The 2022er EMT, as it is simply referred to on the consumer label, comes from a 50-year-old parcel in the original part of the Siefersheimer Heerkretz (EMT is not the name of a parcel but a reference to the name of the previous owner of this particular parcel). It offers a superbly attractive and herbal nose of almond cream, spices (especially cinnamon), pineapple, and acacia, as well as a hint of coconut and honeysuckle. The wine is delicately creamy and juicy on the slightly tart and phenolic palate. The finish is herbal and superbly long. This great dry wine is still very primary and already gains a lot with aeration. It will need a few years in bottle to develop its full complexity, but it clearly has potential. 2026-2032+. - Sep. 2023