2018 Marienburg Riesling Fahrlay Grosses Gewachs
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The 2018 Marienburg Fahrlay Reserve is enormously intense and concentrated on the nose, offering super ripe fruit intertwined with spicy slate aromas. Rich and baroque on the palate yet crystalline, saline and refined, this is a dense, powerful, finely tannic and still slightly bitter-finishing Reserve that needs another couple of years or even a decade to reveal its true elegance, finesse and terroir character. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2022.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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On blue slate (cf Marienburg, on grey slate). Broad and flattering with real richness. Yet the trademark tension of this producer too. And rocky warmth underneath with, even, a hint of honey. Very long. (JR)
Animating nose of ripe green fruit with apple leading the olfactory charge, a fine notion of citrus fruit completes the fragrance. Opposites attract on the palate with the taste of juicy grapefruit on the one side, a dusty mineral component on the other. There’s also some coming together to be done between the viscous texture and a delicate phenolic peel note. (MS)
The Pündericher 2018 Marienburg GG Fahrlay is the selection from 75+-year-old vines on blue slate that surround the Terrassen selection. The nose is pure, fresh and intense yet also very fine and complex, with perfectly ripe fruit and herbal and crunchy slate aromas. Lush and buoyant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, very elegant, refined and balanced yet intense, persistently fruity and slightly sweetish dry Riesling with fine acidity and a long, intense, slightly bitter yet tight and tensioned finish. 13.5% alcohol. Tasted from AP 3619 in July 2020.