2014 Domaine Weinbach Riesling Schlossberg

From the upper part of the terraced single vineyard site, the 2014 Riesling Grand Cru Schlossberg opens with pure, intense and fresh lime flavors on the nose, and indicates a concentrated, aromatically precise and minerally articulated character that reflects the cooler nature of the Schlossberg compared to the nearby Sonnenberg Grand Cru in Niedermorschwihr. The attack on the palate is fruit intense and elegant, wide and round, but never broad or baroque. The Schlossberg combines its sappy, well-concentrated Riesling fruit with the mineral soul of the granitique cru, and finishes with lemon flavors and a lingering salinity. Very long and complex; here, you get both the salty mineral character of the graniteque soil and the ripe but coolish lime-perfume of the upper part of the south-facing Cru, which benefits from cool nights since it is located in a small valley with forests and the Weinbach stream. A great and promising Riesling.