Monzinger Halenberg, Riesling, Auslese
Emrich Schönleber

Monzinger Halenberg, Riesling, Auslese


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2015
75cl
DP
£55.84

2018
75cl
DP
£52.69

2018
6x75cl
DP
£316.18

2020
75cl
DP
£52.64

2020
6x75cl
DP
£315.91

2021
6x75cl
DP
£303.91

2022
12x37.5cl
DP
£334.43

2022
6x75cl
DP
£310.43


Emrich Schönleber, Monzinger Halenberg, Riesling, Auslese, 2015

2015

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Emrich Schönleber, Monzinger Halenberg, Riesling, Auslese, 2015

Sporting almost 50% botrytised, shrivelled grapes but none as dry as raisins, this has a beautiful exotic fruit cocktail nose that soars from the glass, tangerine, guava, orange and peach. Texturally lithe and lissom as it snakes its way across the palate, fluide and seamless. Frank told us this was picked at the same time as the TBA, which indicates the ripeness of fruit that made it into the blend. 18 people harvesting for two days and a mere 600 Litres of Auslese were produced! A stunner.

Maturity:
Keep/Drink
ABV:
15%
94/100
David Schildknecht, Vinous

Picked around the same time as the corresponding Spätlese, this doesn’t try to compete, but instead goes its own creamy, soothing way with a watercolor-like wash of ripe white peach and strawberry, honeydew and lime transparent to cooling herbal essences and underlying wet stone. A glaze of quince jelly points to the presence of very refined noble rot. The long, mouthwatering, umami-rich finish displays hints of browned butter and caramel without giving up the cooling sense of green herbal concentration of the refreshing juiciness of honeydew and lime.
Date Reviewed:
11/2017

specifications

country:
Germany

region:
Nahe

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Allergen Information:
This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.


Emrich Schönleber

Emrich Schönleber

A great Nahe estate that was started by Werner Schönleber in the 1960s with just two hectares. Today the estate comprises 14 hectares, mainly Riesling, on the slate and quartzite soils of the Halenberg and Frühlingsplatzchen vineyards. Intense vineyard work and spontaneous fermentation in old oak casks together with ageing in steel vat conspire to produce intense, long lived Nahe Riesling that combines floral, charming qualitites with intense minerality. For the last five years, this estate has been perfoming to is maximum, rivalling Germany’s very greatest producers.

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