Saarburger Rausch, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2023
Rausch GG shows a mix of ripe appley fruits and a herbal touch on the nose. The palate is nicely animated with a fine acidity peppered with savoury notes of fennel and pink rock salts and a slatey herbal tang to the ripe finish. Fermented and aged in a 10-year-old fuder barrel until April and then moved to a newer neutral barrel for the last three months of ageing. From two plots: a tiny 0.4ha section of the vineyard planted in 1880 that remains, despite some obvious replanting, entirely ungrafted, and a “younger” 50-year-old block.
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The 2023 Riesling Saarburger Rausch Grosses Gewächs was picked from the oldest parcel of the Rausch, featuring 140-year-old vines and a parcel of 50-year-old vines. Mango on the nose is framed by passionfruit foliage. The palate offers a streak of lemon on slate rocks, buffered slightly by creaminess, yet remains exquisitely slender and streamlined. Really light but wonderfully zesty at the core.
The 2023 Rausch GG is deep, pure, fresh and mineral on the intense, highly elegant and subtly citric as well as herbal nose. Full-bodied, dense and refined on the palate yet firmly and persistently structured, this is a rich and complex yet always pure, saline and mineral Rausch that bears great complexity and mineral tension yet should be cellared for at least another five years. 12% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2024.
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