Winemaker Notes
Extremely ripe and concentrated fruity elements of peach, yellow plum, gooseberry and grapefruit are interwoven through the full body of this Riesling from the Haardt Herrenletten. The finish of this wine with its depth and cool minerality lingers for a good long time.
Organically grown
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
What a subtle, spicy nose with just a hint of smoke! So cool, focused and delicate. The mirabelle fruit slowly emerges with aeration in the glass, opening up a wide new vista. Patience will be rewarded by even greater elegance than the wine offers now. Drink or hold. From organically grown grapes.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
From a Buntsandstein terroir with a calcareous vein, the 2019 Herrenletten Riesling is intensely aromatic and fruity yet also stony and still distanced on the nose. Piquant and tight on the palate, with intense and juicy fruit, this is a full-bodied, tight and still young but elegant and juicy dry Riesling with a serious structure and length. Not charming at all at this very early stage but with good potential to improve.
Rating: 90+
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
This sunny and relatively dry region served for many years as a German tourist mecca and was associated with low cost, cheerful wines. But since the 1980s, it has gained a reputation as one of Germany’s more innovative regions, which has led to increased international demand.