Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Riesling, Auslese, 2020
Unsurprisingly, patience will be required here, indeed the site's textbook complex minerality and delicacy are almost, but not quite, smothered by the sheer mass of complex summer fruit and dried fruit notes on display, alongside the honey and sweet fruit acidity - all of which are delivered with the lightest of footprints and silkiest of textures. This really is just an infant, but already it is very long and highly complex. An elixir today but a magic potion given enough time.
critic reviews
The 2020 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese is intense and complex on the still introverted but complex nose that shows clear, bright fruit aromas (baby pineapple) intermingled with fine, flinty slate notes. What an aristocratic appearance! Round, crystalline and saline on the palate, this 2020 Auslese is much more openhearted and fruity as well as frisky and frivolous than it pretends to be on the nose. This is a really Catholic Riesling or a picture-book Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese. Its finish, however, is Protestant: rigorously linear, straight and with serious structure and grip. All in all, this is the world's most ecumenical Sonnenuhr. Pure fascination. 7% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine from AP 38 21 in July 2022.