2018 Riesling St Nikolaus Grosses Gewachs
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Maybe it’s my imagination, but the St Nikolaus seems a little gentler than Peter Jakob Kühn’s other Grosse Gewächse. Fruit is certainly dished out in generous and juicy measures, from the local peach and nectarine to the more exotic with passion fruit and a dash of grapefruit. On the finish sprinklings of dusty minerality and ginger spice add a tactile tickle. (MS)
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Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2018 Sankt Nikolaus Riesling trocken GG is remarkably fine on the highly elegant and even charming nose that reveals pencil notes of cedar wood and very distinctive, elegant and slightly flinty fruit with a dash of lemon. The attack on the palate is smooth but refined and utterly elegant, with a seamless texture and a pure, finely mineral and salty-crystalline finish. The Nikolaus is less deep, dramatic and tensioned perhaps than the Doosberg, but this might be a momentary occurrence. Bottled at the end of March, tasted in April 2020. To be released in September this year.