2015 Franz Hirtzberger Riesling Singerriedel Smaragd
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Four separate pickings informed this bottling – the last on October 25 – with the best botrytis berries directed to a bit of Beerenauslese that was still fermenting when I tasted here in June 2016. Musky, narcissus-like floral perfume mingles with scents of ripe apricot and peach, and those features then inform an expansive, creamy, glycerol-rich palate. For all of the richness that typifies a Hirtzberger Singerriedel bottling, and which this one displays in spades, the 2015 also exhibits on its wonderfully sustained finish unusual buoyancy and transparency to stony and crystalline nuances and musky inner-mouth florality.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Great finesse and purity on the nose, herbal flavors, crushed (gneiss) stones and ripe white fruits and a great precision – that's how the 2015 Riesling Smaragd Spitzer Singerriedel starts on the nose. Highly elegant and round on the palate, this is a Riesling of great elegance and tension, super complex, intense and mineral, with great elegance and an endless finish. A great Riesling knocking on Unendlich's door.