2020 Emrich-Schonleber Halenberg Riesling GG
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
The 2020 Halenberg GG is pure, precise and fresh on the nose that offers flinty notes of crushed stones, herbs and lemons. Crystalline, refined and juicy on the palate, this is a dense and intense, tightly structured and persistently salty Halenberg with fine tannins and great purity. Tasted from a bottle that was opened three days before, the bouquet is deep and intense but pure and salty with ripe lemon and crushed stone aromas. The palate is full, dense and tight, with serious tannin structure and lingering salinity. The combination of both wines is amazing and combines purity and freshness with complexity and elegance. The salty finish is the leitmotiv of all three versions. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in July 2021.
Critic scores
Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
More reviews and scores
The nose has almost more spiritual than aromatic presence. On second inhalation some gentle notes of mineral, fruity but mainly herbal components can be found. On the palate there’s an injection of fresh spearmint which really cools the taste buds, before the mandatory mineral dust puts a more tactile touch on the finish. Fruit may not be most prominent, but it’s there with grapefruit piquancy and peach-stone holding the fort. (MS)
Full bottle 1,435 g. Introvert nose. There's obviously a lot tucked in here but I'd keep it quite a while. There's a bone-dry grapefruit-juice note and lots of texture. But it should be worth trying by the end of 2022. The fruit was obviously pristine and ripe but certainly not remotely heavy. A certain chalky texture on the (extremely persistent) finish. This will be beautiful in time. (JR)
Enormously fine and subtle nose. The ravishing but very delicate apricot aroma pulls you into the profound mineral depths of this dry-riesling masterpiece. The salty minerality at the finish just doesnât want to stop and gives you a great feeling of how the most dramatic landscapes of this region look. Drink or hold.