2020 Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Grosses Gewachs
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The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen GG is very pure and fresh on the precise and stony, pretty reductive and herbal nose that needs lots of air to open up. Crystalline and pure on the palate, this is a bone-dry, refined, enormously salty and piquant Riesling from partly red slate, loam and quartzite plots. The finish is pure, fresh and precise, very long and expressive. Tasted from a bottle that was opened three days earlier, it is much more charming and open on the nose, showing an intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, lemons and white fruits. The palate is round and elegant, much lusher and long, but it still has long-lasting salinity on the finish. A gorgeous Frühlingsplätzchen that today comes from stonier plots than in the beginning of the GG saga. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in July 2021.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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The Nahe is not a mountain stream, but it might be for all we know with Schönleber’s Frühlingsplätzchen’s cool and pure mineral expression, aptly complemented by a gentle herbal freshness. The crushed juicy herbs also appear first on the palate with the stony mineral elements a little slower to establish their authority on the finish. (MS)
Full bottle 1,435 g. Glorious nose of something like wet stones and precise florality. Seriously appetising. It's still a little youthful for now but by January 2022 it should be drinking really beautifully. A complete expression of dry, fully ripe Riesling. Much more open than its Halenberg stablemate. (JR)
A breathtaking wine that has all the mineral depth and concentration you associate with a Grand Cru, but also a wide spectrum of very fine citrus and berry aromas. Then it splash lands in an explosion of fresh-herb aromas. Drink or hold.