
Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2021
A very windy site that offers up light to the Hergott’s darkness. A super sophisticated nose, not unlike still Champagne, offers up complex notes of wild fermentation, fine red fruit and citrus alongside a touch of something bakery led. Light and long and bright, this has such great lift and an overriding sense of elegance and detail. The soil is extremely rocky and stony, not heavy at all. “It took us 20 years to truly understand the elegance of this wine” Oliver explained. It seems like they’ve got a pretty good handle on it now. A real beauty. The vines here have very little topsoil before diving straight into limestone. Buffeted by wind from the Zellertal valley, sitting at 280m above sea level, this is always the last vineyard to be harvested and the wines have an aromatic clarity that is startling.
critic reviews
The 2021 Frauenberg Nieder-Florsheim Riesling GG opens with intense and concentrated, very elegant and pure yellow fruit intertwined with chalky notes. Salty and savory, with highly stimulating and ascetic purity, this is a finely grippy and stimulating Riesling that is much more limestone than Riesling. It is enormously youthful, reduced, pure and naked and ready to be aged for decades. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2022.
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